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Things have been a little quiet on the photo front, but after a family trip to Whipsnade at the weaken, I thought I'd share a few from the day. Please feel free to comment and critique. I have tried a slightly different processing style for me and would like to know everyones thoughts are.

1. The Lovely Ladies

Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 66 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr

2. The Noble Spike
Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 68 of 378-2.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr

3. Not looking happy
Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 68 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr

4. In Colour

Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 71 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr

5. Looking Noble

Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 70 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr
 
I quite like 1 & 4 for the processing and the actual shot for the latter too, but the others make me think they were a lazy attempt at selective colouring (which I'm sure they're not ;) )
 
new2me said:
I quite like 1 & 4 for the processing and the actual shot for the latter too, but the others make me think they were a lazy attempt at selective colouring (which I'm sure they're not ;) )
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You're right they're not. I started by looking at B & W, I then quite liked the effect and hint of colour that dropping the vibrance gave
 
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That would be 2/3/5, specifically.
But I do see what you were trying to do :)

But also I'm really not keen on Mono animals per se TBH.
Its not just yours, honest ;)
 
Cobra said:
That would be 2/3/5, specifically.
But I do see what you were trying to do :)

But also I'm really not keen on Mono animals per se TBH.
Its not just yours, honest ;)
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Thanks Chris as always, all C&C is grateful.

Just to keep our friendly tame snake happy, here you go.
Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 68 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr
Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 68 of 378-2.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr
Whipsnade Zoo August 17, 2014 70 of 378.jpg by Chris Heathcote, on Flickr
 
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ChrisHeathcote said:
Just to keep our friendly tame snake happy, here you go.
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That's better :D

But I think maybe you've been just a little heavy handed with the sharpen.
It kinda works OK like that, on the mono and "tinting"
Not so on the colour versions I feel though?
 
I think that's come from Flickr because I hardly moved the sharpen slider. I'm looking at my iPad now and it looks different to what it does in Lightroom on my Mac
 
Flickr does seem to mess with the sharpen at times, somewhat,
sometimes its "soft" sometimes its OTT.

Your not the first to note that and I'm sure you won't be the last.
 
Chris, compositionally I like them, but the first selection, colourwise, isn't floating my boat :(
I do like the BW versions though, very much. :)
For some reason I can't see the colour versions posted for the snake.....I'm clearly not Speshul enough :(
 
viv1969 said:
Chris, compositionally I like them, but the first selection, colourwise, isn't floating my boat :(
I do like the BW versions though, very much. :)
For some reason I can't see the colour versions posted for the snake.....I'm clearly not Speshul enough :(
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Edited so you should be able to see, just to make you feel Thpethal too Ruth ;)
 
ChrisHeathcote said:
Edited so you should be able to see, just to make you feel Thpethal too Ruth ;)
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Yeay!! OOoohh I do like the colour ones....especially #2.
I really do love Spike's expression in #3. He looks like someone just held a small poo under his nose and he caught a whiff :LOL:
 
Thanks Ruth, I know what you mean about no. 3. I wasn't sure if he wasn't attempting to pose for everyone staring at him through the glass. Either that or he had a bad case of wind which had just cleared :)
 
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