Rescued Tigers

Cinda

Was priveledged to go to a big cat rescue facility here in north Texas on Sat. Spent two hours w/some fun people and here is a sample.

Scott_Quier

This is very nice. I love how you have taken the theme of the tiger strips and emphasized them with whatever technique you used. At first I thought you had done some sort of zoom thing, but I don't see the artifacts of that on the cat's tail. Very nicely done.

Care to share a little about how you accomplished this FX?

Cinda

Hi Scott - thanks for the nice comment. I got this effect in PS by making an oval around her face, feathering, then inversed and used zoom blur. I did it a couple of times, doing and undoing until I got the effect I wanted.

PossumCorner

Cinda wrote:

... big cat rescue facility ...

Lovely Cinda. I dislike zoo photography with a passion, but rescue is so different. Was this at Tiger Creek? There is a link to it among others at the photo site Khaos mentioned, http://www.thebigcats.com - great work they are doing. Any other shots you could post - or a link to that centre?

wxwax

Very nice, you got some good side light, the eyes are strong!

Cinda

PossumCorner wrote:

Lovely Cinda. I dislike zoo photography with a passion, but rescue is so different. Was this at Tiger Creek? There is a link to it among others at the photo site Khaos mentioned, http://www.thebigcats.com - great work they are doing. Any other shots you could post - or a link to that centre?

This was at Pug Mark Park in McKinney, TX. Really caring and nice people and generous to photographers. There is a fee, but it all goes to the cats. Here's another shot -- for some reason I can only put one photo in a message. Not sure what I'm doin' wrong.

Harryb

Two excellent shots. It must have been a thrill to get so close to such beautiful animals.

Scott_Quier

Cinda wrote:

This was at Pug Mark Park in McKinney, TX. Really caring and nice people and generous to photographers. There is a fee, but it all goes to the cats. Here's another shot -- for some reason I can only put one photo in a message. Not sure what I'm doin' wrong.

DGrin limits attached photos to one per post. You can, however, link in as many as you wish.

Your second cat is just a powerful an image as you first one. I'm just a bit jealous.

saurora

Nice kitties
Love tigers!!! (And big cats in general!) That 2nd shot is great. I would like the first shot better if the eyes had remained more sharply in focus. Other than that, the zoom effect is nice for a different look in a wildlife shot.

dallas

Here kitty, kitty, kitty, very nice Cinda. I like the way you applied PS to convey motion. Rocky is pretty cool also. Well done, and thanks for sharing your talent with us on D-Grin.