As some of you may know i'm a semi-pro photographer and just breaking into the difficult world of photography. Photography is 99% sitting around waiting for the right light etc. Or being in the right place at the right time. It takes a fraction of a second to capture an image. The planning and travelling and nonsense is a bit frustrating at times-like today when i had my kit set up for two hours to try to capture the sunset over Waipoua Forest. All was looking very promising. I fired off a few frames to make sure i was in the right ball park with my exposure. Then the clouds came rolling in just as the sun was setting and it went dark in about 2 mins. Completely ruining the potentially great shot i had planned. :evil: This was at the end of 3 days out in the field, in a location that takes hours to walk to and is 250km's away from my house. I was bloody livid. Not to mention soaked through and without a decent night's sleep in days or a wash. My food supplies had gone and i had about 200ml of fresh water left. To top it all off the 'emergency' petrol station i planned to use had run out of fuel when i got there and i had to drive at 50k's an hour conserving fuel as best as i could to make it to the next fuel station. With no mobile phone reception i was ****** that i might have to walk miles to get fuel and then back again with a fuel can. Not a happy camper. :evil: :evil: :evil:
But. I downloaded all my images tonight and was rewarded with a beautiful shot of a New Zealand fur seal. I don't review my images in the field due to the pathetic duration i get from my laptop battery. I need all the power to download from my flash card to the laptop to free up my cards. I have 16GB of flash cards but that gets used up fairly quickly when your in the field.
I've processed the image and came up with this. I've removed the colour from the background as the mosses and rocks weren't on par with the seal or his expression-which i want to highlight. I'm a happy boy as this is exactly what my client wanted and i think i'll be able to sell this image over and over. I fired off 16 frames of this seal. This is the only one when he was looking straight at me and what a snooty posture! He's a young male and will lose the beautiful mane of hair a bit as he matures. I'll replace this image with a copyrighted one in a few days time. Viewed at full size it's absolutely pin sharp and his oily, wet coat and flippers almost reflect the rocks in places.
What do you think?
But. I downloaded all my images tonight and was rewarded with a beautiful shot of a New Zealand fur seal. I don't review my images in the field due to the pathetic duration i get from my laptop battery. I need all the power to download from my flash card to the laptop to free up my cards. I have 16GB of flash cards but that gets used up fairly quickly when your in the field.
I've processed the image and came up with this. I've removed the colour from the background as the mosses and rocks weren't on par with the seal or his expression-which i want to highlight. I'm a happy boy as this is exactly what my client wanted and i think i'll be able to sell this image over and over. I fired off 16 frames of this seal. This is the only one when he was looking straight at me and what a snooty posture! He's a young male and will lose the beautiful mane of hair a bit as he matures. I'll replace this image with a copyrighted one in a few days time. Viewed at full size it's absolutely pin sharp and his oily, wet coat and flippers almost reflect the rocks in places.
What do you think?
