Captive Critters

[stubbsy]

I went to Taronga Zoo a few weeks back, but have only just started PP. here are some that caught my eye. The first shot was taken with my 24-120VR, the rest with my 70-200VR.

[sirhc55]

Very nice Peter - I feel that there may be a tad too much blue in 2

[Matt. K]

Peter
On my ...new...monitor, the colours of all the images appear heavily saturated. They don't look natural. I'm guessing you are using a new software routine on these pics. The other thing that seems to distract is that they are so tightly cropped that there is no space for the image to express itself. You have caged the images and they look uncomfortable. Step back a little and let them breath. If they have merit then the viewer will take the time to find it...you don't have to put a big red arrow on your subjects. I hope this makes sense to you? In regard to image #1 take a good look and see if you can find the compositional lines of direction...where do they lead the eye? Out of the picture? That is why the image has little visual tension. It bleeds out along those lines. There is no point of interest strong enough to arrest that. PS I'm trying to make you think about the image and examine its structure.

[Finch]

Peter,

Glad you enjoyed your day at Taronga Zoo. When I was a birdkeeper there back in 1989-90, I was surrounded by these critters 5 days a week and it was fantastic.

I like shot no. 2 especially, but I also agree that there is way too much blue.

Cheers

Michael

[radar]

Hi Peter,

#1 is a bit too "jumbled" up together, Matt said it well.

#2 like this one except for being a bit too blue and cutting off its nose

#3 I like, nice portrait of the giraffe.

#4 I find there are too many legs

But that's all IMHO, still was a great day I'm sure.

Cheers,

André

[stubbsy]

Chris, Matt, Michael, André

Thanks for your critiques. Having reflected on this I went back and redid the PP on the first 3 of these and have discarded the fourth. I've created a new thread showing the results HERE