Sepia Lioness
Madikwe Game Reserve, 1 August 2010, 08h43
Nikon D300, Nikon 80-200 @ 200mm, 1/1000, f/5.6, ISO 400, -1/3 EV
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After sitting watching this lioness the entire morning she finally made her way out into the open. She walked around our vehicle and ended up a little way away, staring into the morning sun. Did not have too many options for shooting her in her surroundings as the background was pretty ugly. I decided to go in quite tight and focus on her head and leave her just a little bit of space to look into.
Due to the already bright morning sun I underexposed a little to compensate for the very bright areas on her face. The color image was ok-ish but I ‘saw’ this in a slight sepia tone so proceeded to convert the image to B&W in Lightroom and then added a slight split tone to the image.
Plain and simple.
If you have been following the blog you will know that the Thursday guest posts will be back in September so after the sharing post from last week, tomorrow I will be doing a bit more of a learning type post.
Well sort of.
In photography, both wildlife and otherwise, it is important to get your blacks black and your whites white so check out tomorrow’s post on how to use Lightroom to help you achieve that goal. This tutorial will pick up where the previous Lightroom post left off.
See ya tomorrow.
Gerry
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