Tigers at Play

[Art.Is.Life<3]

This is an older pic, from last summer.



I call it Tigers at Play.



C&C always welcome, and appreciated!!!

[vmrs]

Tigers are so funny, I love seeing them in the water. Great shot.

[droll13]

Nice capture. Hard to imagine creatures that powerful playing, but they do.

I keep telling myself that I need to spend a day taking photos at the zoo. I'd be happy if I got something as good as yours.

I'd consider some different crops: certainly removing the strip of wall or tree at the left, and maybe a much tighter crop to focus on the tigers (but without centering them, of course).

A tighter crop would also lessen the impact of the bright, vivid colors, which may be distracting the eye from the tigers.

If you have photo-editing software handy, it'd be interesting to see if darkening those bright colors, or lowering their intensity, or both, helps or hurts the photo.

[Art.Is.Life<3]

Thanks for the comments, and for the advice. Here's an edit I did. I downed the saturation a bit and cropped a little from 3 sides. What do you think? Better or worse?

[droll13]

Good adjustment, and the crop produced a nice composition.

The desaturation worked well. It affected the tigers too, but they still look very good. If you wanted to keep only them at their full saturation, assuming you did the desaturation on a separate layer you could do this by using a layer mask.

[Art.Is.Life<3]

Thanks.

I'll open photoshop and see what I can do. Stand by for another picture.

[Luv2shoot]

This is a remarkable capture and I think you improved the composition by the additional croppping.

It is nice seeing animals caught "in motion".

[debsn2paintn]

Beautiful capture and I especially like the water splash! The saturation on the last one is still very colorful but really nice!