Bath interupted

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 22, 2010231 views7 comments

Besar, the Sumatram tiger at the Miller Park Zoo, enjoyed playing in his pool. Gone now, he was one of the oldest Sumatrans in the country.

I debated cropping out the log, any thoughts?

Canon STi, Tamaron 18-200mm lens.
1/200 @ f-9 ISO 400, @ 168mm.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Larry Reitz on February 22, 2010 at 12:45 PM

I'd keep it. A decent, albeit not essential, foreground element.
Larry Reitz

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on February 22, 2010 at 2:42 PM

Nice picture of this tiger, John. I would crop out the log. Doing a scroll crop here to just above the log and below the paws as much as possible looks much better to me. It would be close to a 4 x 5 size crop. It puts more of the focus on the tiger IMO.

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on February 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM

This tiger is giving you an excellent portrait pose here John and the paws dangling over the ridge give it something playful. I have no problem at all with the log, but it could work just as well without IMO. I would suggest to selectively brighten the tiger just a tad to make it pop out of its environment a bit more and bring its vibrant natural color to live.

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Comment posted by Jorne de Bruin on February 23, 2010 at 6:46 AM

Nice potrait John! Personally I wuld crop out the log to focus the attention more on the tiger, but it works with the log as well.

Registered on June 26, 2008, 178 Posts, 2136 Comments

Comment posted by Robert Bunch on February 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM

I would not crop out the log completely but I might cut it off at about the middle to reduce its presence a bit. I also agree that the tiger needs to be brightened up a little especially in the face and head.

Registered on May 18, 2004, 124 Posts, 2503 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on February 23, 2010 at 3:09 PM

Thanks for all of the comments. My PSE 7 skills leave much to be desired, however I have tried to lighten the tigers face, cropped out the log, and cloned out a couple of items that could be distracting. Let me know what you think.

I appreciate all of the comments, thanks again.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Jack Nevitt on February 27, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Nice tiger, I agree with cropping out the log.

Registered on February 11, 2004, 183 Posts, 118 Comments