Lynx Lynx & Red Foxes

elfving73

Hello friends!

Took a stroll at Skansen today. It is the oldest open-air museum in the world. Skansen is also a zoological park specializing mainly in Scandinavian wildlife. By a "coincident" I had my camera with me, so I snapped a few "wild life" pictures. :wink Once again, I have to say I'm very happy with my new Sigma lens. Most of these are shot handheld at 300 mm.

I got close contact with this Lynx, ca 25-30 cm, and it was very exhiting. I'm glad there was a fence between us, because this little kitten really wanted to digg in on me. (I'm glad someone does!)




It attacked the fence, roaring and showing off a very aggressive behavior. She had puppies, so I guess that's why. The fence actually got bended! *Exhiting*















Da Puppy (One of them)




And a few fox shots. Can't deside (of the two first) wheather I prefer the warmer or cooler one. (Shot in RAW, "developed" differently)














"Arrrre you taaalkin' to meeee?"

GREAPER

Very nice. I like them very much.

elfving73

Thanx Greaper! : Glad you do!

Matty

Owen

My two favorites. Sharp & beautiful colors. The DOF in the last one is particularly pleasing!

elfving73 wrote:

gluwater

Beautiful shots Mattias. I especially like #1, 5, 6, and 10. For the two that you processed differently I like the first "warmer" one better. From the shadows it looks like it was nearing sunset and the warmer colors look more realistic to the light. #'s 1,2, and 4 look like they may have a bit too much yellow in them. Overall they are all well done.

Jnichols

I love #6! Great pictures.

luckydog

Excellent collect Mattias Love the late afternoon warmth in the fox shots.

I'm sure there must be some people out there that would love to buy at least one of these.

Khaos

DavidTO

elfving73 wrote:

Hello friends!

elfving,

I saw this shot and thought: what a perfect candidate for LAB! That green cast on the fur is very easy to remove with a simple A curve. I did it, but I don't want to post without permission.

If you've been following the LAB discussion, this is stuff that we haven't covered yet.

Rohirrim

Awesome captures. Very sharp and great composition. Perfect caption for that last fox, he's looking pretty scary :yikes

elfving73

Thanx Owen! Yes, I just love my new sigma lens. 300 mm does miracles for DOF. :

Owen wrote:

My two favorites. Sharp & beautiful colors. The DOF in the last one is particularly pleasing!

elfving73

Thanx Nick!
Yes, your right, the sun was rather low, and the "warmer" pic reflects what the scene actually looked like. Sometimes colors can be so confusing, but I think that the color of the cat at pic #1 is the most accurate of them all. #3 is a little to red/orange.

Thanx for your input / Matty

gluwater wrote:

Beautiful shots Mattias. I especially like #1, 5, 6, and 10. For the two that you processed differently I like the first "warmer" one better. From the shadows it looks like it was nearing sunset and the warmer colors look more realistic to the light. #'s 1,2, and 4 look like they may have a bit too much yellow in them. Overall they are all well done.

elfving73

Thanx Jen!

Jnichols wrote:

I love #6! Great pictures.

elfving73

Thank you, Darryl!
You know, I was just about to put my camera away (Yeah, like that would ever happen! ) and go home when I caught site of the fox. I was very happy, because apart from the lynx pictures, there wasn't much of interest to shoot that day, and I was far from satisfied (aren't we always?) The foxes actually was what made the trip worth while. They are so beautiful!

You think so? Oh man! *Dreaming* It would be so cool to sell a picture! Oh boy, I wish that'll happen one day!

Matty

luckydog wrote:

Excellent collect Mattias Love the late afternoon warmth in the fox shots.

I'm sure there must be some people out there that would love to buy at least one of these.

elfving73

Haha! Thanx Khaos!

Khaos wrote:

Michiel de Brieder

Matty,

they are *beautiful*
I'm stunned by the beautiful colors and excellent detail!

Thanks for sharing

elfving73

Hi David!
How interesting! Go ahead and post it with a description on the workflow, I don't mind! :

Matty

DavidTO wrote:

elfving,

I saw this shot and thought: what a perfect candidate for LAB! That green cast on the fur is very easy to remove with a simple A curve. I did it, but I don't want to post without permission.

If you've been following the LAB discussion, this is stuff that we haven't covered yet.

elfving73

Thank you, Steve!

Yes! Haha! His eyes was rather intense! He didn't look very happy to see me!
Matty

Rohirrim wrote:

Awesome captures. Very sharp and great composition. Perfect caption for that last fox, he's looking pretty scary :yikes

elfving73

Hey Michiel! Thanx! I'm so pleased with my new cheapo-cheapo-lens! You usually get what you pay for, but in this case, I think I got much more than I thought I was paying for! I guess it can't be compared with L-lenses, but if you compare the differential in price - well, then I can live with the loss in quality. (For a while at least!)

Matty

Michiel de Brieder wrote:

Matty,

they are *beautiful*
I'm stunned by the beautiful colors and excellent detail!

Thanks for sharing

DavidTO

elfving73 wrote:

How interesting! Go ahead and post it with a description on the workflow, I don't mind! :

Matty

OK, so here's the before and after:





Here's the curve I applied:



But it took out a bit of the green in the sunlit leaves, where the saturation of green was less than everything else. so I applied a mask. It was a very easy, simple mask.



The whole thing took a couple of minutes, and I really like how it got rid of the green cast on the underside of the lynx.

dandill

DavidTO wrote:

I really like how it got rid of the green cast on the underside of the lynx.

Your edit is really neat. About the green cast, I got to wondering: It is probably really there, the leaves being reflected by the fur.

DavidTO

dandill wrote:

Your edit is really neat. About the green cast, I got to wondering: It is probably really there, the leaves being reflected by the fur.

I'm sure that's why it's there. But it looks better without!

elfving73

Hey David!

That's cool! To be honest, I hadn't noticed the green tint before you meantioned it, no, before you removed it. Thanks for the "tutorial". I gotta look into tweakin' in LAB-mod. All I've done in LAB-mode before is a way to converting to BW, and a sharpening method. There is so much to learn. That's great!

Matty

ginger_55

Wonderful photos, you can take those color casts out in RAW, too. That is how I do it. With the WB eye dropper. Or just eyeball the WB. I have green on my birds from the algae all the time.

ginger (I like how you did the poster frame, too.)

DavidTO

elfving73 wrote:

Hey David!

That's cool! To be honest, I hadn't noticed the green tint before you meantioned it, no, before you removed it. Thanks for the "tutorial". I gotta look into tweakin' in LAB-mod. All I've done in LAB-mode before is a way to converting to BW, and a sharpening method. There is so much to learn. That's great!

Matty

It's like when you buy a VW and then that's all you notice on the roads.

Since playing with LAB, not only am I always appraising whether a shot could benefit, but I had one shot where my wife's white t-shirt had a blue cast from the sky. When I realized how easy it was to remove, I've been looking for other applications of the same technique.

DavidTO

ginger_55 wrote:

Wonderful photos, you can take those color casts out in RAW, too. That is how I do it. With the WB eye dropper. Or just eyeball the WB. I have green on my birds from the algae all the time.

ginger (I like how you did the poster frame, too.)

There's lots of ways to do it, true, Ginger. The great thing about LAB is that you can target a specific range of green (or whatever) very easily.