Funny Face

Los Angeles Zoo. 80-400 on DSLR. Tripod (uncrowded zoo). Channel Mixer
conversion to B&W. A completely failed effort to look like Nick Brandt's African
wildlife photos in B&W. Google Brandt for a look at his book. Incredible work
usually done in color by other African photogs.

Posted by Jeff Dye on Tue, 01/26/10 16:52
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Comments by Jan Bjorklund on Tue, 01/26/10 19:23

The contrast between the relative lightness of the giraffe's head and neck and the darker background really serves to make the giraffe stand out strongly. Good textural sense also. But for those horns I would say this is Yoda from Star Wars.


Comments by Sal Santostefano on Wed, 01/27/10 11:06

A little touch of vignette and some play curves I’d think you’d be pretty darn close to Brandt. This is a great shot.


Comments by John Long on Wed, 01/27/10 16:14

Beautifully sharp - works well in monochrome. I feel you have also handled the background very well, which could have contained many distractions.


Comments by G.B. SHETTLER on Wed, 01/27/10 20:03

Great photo, Jeff. (wish the other eye was there)


Comments by thomasCO on Thu, 01/28/10 22:26

I never knew they where such ugly animals! Are the all this awkward looking or did you catch the one off beast :) Excellent use of monochrome and the background is well done as well. Funny thing though, while looking at this photo on my laptop, I had the screen tilted way back and the background at first looked black. Could be interesting to play around with it in photoshop to completelly kill the background, really makes the head pop but you'd lose that purity of photo aspect some people need. The original must be nice because even this lower quality image that we upload for photocritique is sharp and the detail is great. Don't be so hard on this shot, it's one of my favorites.


Comments by Christopher Azzopardi on Sat, 01/30/10 11:32

Excellent use of black and white.


Comments by Paul Bracey on Mon, 02/01/10 13:09

nice work