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A close up photograph of a Giraffe in Botswana’s Okavango Delta provides a great starting point for a toned monochrome image.
A Little Egret wading through the shallows of the Okavango Delta makes a beautiful split toned monochrome subject.
I decided to accept the massive contrast involved and push the image towards a more graphic, illustrative effect.
Check out the strand of spider’s web that the gazelle was picked up between it’s horns and the, moving, fly that’s buzzing around it’s ear! Detail which in the days of 35mm film would have been impossible.
Image quality, and our perception of it, are influenced by such things as colour values and relationships, contrast, and perceived sharpness or acutance.
a male lion, part of a pride of about a dozen, including several cubs, sits unconcerned by the presence of several safari vehicles.