Nice Photos.

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Not for me.!"

Yeah, for me, I find that brighter bits particularly often show up brighter once placed in flickr. So, the original of the above looked fine in LR, PSE and Canon Image and Zoombrowser. Stick it on flickr and the lowered exposure parts 'painted' around the Zebra look very blotchy...

I love those old portraits of (say) Churchill where he is seemingly emerging from a totally black background as your zebra is doing here - how do you do it? 

Not that big quality pic,it was taken with my Lumia 820

Any Lumia 1020 owner on here?

State of mind

Douglas

An Allegiance

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Well, you get a studio, black it out, arrange some lighting and then fetch the zebra...

Seriously, the portrait shots you refer to are usually a mix of careful lighting and then in the film days (and now digital) the use of dodge and burn techniques to under or over expose areas in the prints. E.G. make the dark/unwanted bits darker.

The Zebra is similar. I had the idea in my head when we visited Linton Zoo over the hols. Had to wait for an obliging Zebra to give me a suitable head shot, then it was a time consuming process of dropping the exposure and things around the Zebra in LR...It hasn't worked out quite perfectly due to the natural sun light on the LHS of his (her?) face not giving me sufficient separation around the nose IMO, but it works I think. Got around 7000 views in flickr so it had impact!

It is a cracking shot Jamie - 7000 hits is no mean feat!

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Jamie,

I much prefer the first zebra which got only 53 views but in my mind it is a much more interesting and a better composed image. I am comfortable belonging to the tiny minority and feel sorry for the 6947 who missed the real good one.

Haim

Thanks Haim, as a piece of composition I prefer it too but as a project I like the head shot!

I notice you have an ftn in your flickr stream Jamie - my first intro to SLR shooting was with that camera and I still have it in pristine condition as I couldn't get away from my Ricoh 500G. G

Yes I bought it a little knackered off ebay a few weeks ago but almost mechanically sound. I think it cost me thirteen quid! That was a 'before' shot, need to put up an after one as I've now sorted it and it's good to go.  Now looks quite splendid.

Waiting for the ferry?

Glasgow - Riverside Transport Museum by Zaha Hadid Jamie:

Plenty on Flickr      http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Nokia++1020

No clouds 

A oerfectly clear day. Lake Michigan steaming since the air temperature is 48F degrees colder. Captured at -14F with a windchill of -39F. The D200 works without a hitch, not me for sure.

View From my window by BLUENOWZ1878, on Flickr Sunset late Afternoon by BLUENOWZ1878, on Flickr Afternoon Sunset by BLUENOWZ1878, on Flickr

Thank you Blueknowz

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First lambs of the season by BLUENOWZ1878, on Flickr

Lumia 800