California Sea Lions

Tony Britton

A favorite black & white conversion of a pair of sea lions basking in the sunlight. Side-lighting helped me achieve the effect I desired for this photograph.

pathfinder

Wow!! Nice conversion and nice side lighting!

Kudos to your light adjuster! Late afternoon pre-sunset lighting is so sweet.

You might ask yourself whether you really need all that black negative space or could this image be better if the upper right corner were lowered and moved to the left just slightly?

I like the negative space but there is a lot of it....

denisegoldberg

I really like this one. And I like the amount of negative space.

Tony Britton

@pathfinder said:
Wow!! Nice conversion and nice side lighting!

Kudos to your light adjuster! Late afternoon pre-sunset lighting is so sweet.

You might ask yourself whether you really need all that black negative space or could this image be better if the upper right corner were lowered and moved to the left just slightly?

I like the negative space but there is a lot of it....

Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. I greatly appreciate your suggestion and it would certainly work well for this image. Thank you for that!

Best regards,

Tony
https://tonybritton.smugmug.com/

Tony Britton

@denisegoldberg said:
I really like this one. And I like the amount of negative space.

Thanks so very much, Denise. I always appreciate you taking the time to look and comment on my photographs!

Best regards,

Tony
https://tonybritton.smugmug.com/

Cavalier

I love this one - wonderful lighting, composition and detail. Very sweet pose.

Tony Britton

@Cavalier said:
I love this one - wonderful lighting, composition and detail. Very sweet pose.

Thanks so very much for looking and commenting!

Tony

double_entendre

I like the negative space, but agree with @pathfinder that there's just a bit much of it. I love the texture and the anthropomorphic emotion I read into it. Very nice shot.

Tony Britton

@double_entendre said:
I like the negative space, but agree with @pathfinder that there's just a bit much of it. I love the texture and the anthropomorphic emotion I read into it. Very nice shot.

Thanks for looking and commenting. I'm having a bit of good luck with this photo. I submitted it to a travel magazine and they posted it this morning on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social media pages. WooHoo!

Tony

double_entendre

@Tony Britton said:

@double_entendre said:
I like the negative space, but agree with @pathfinder that there's just a bit much of it. I love the texture and the anthropomorphic emotion I read into it. Very nice shot.

Thanks for looking and commenting. I'm having a bit of good luck with this photo. I submitted it to a travel magazine and they posted it this morning on their Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram social media pages. WooHoo!

Tony

Well heck! Don't listen to me about negative space then. That's awesome!

willard3

I like the negative space and the foto