Mountain-Light

 

  Male Leopard

 

 

There are few external differences betwen the male and the female leopard, but at 60kg, the male can weigh up to twice as much as the female at 32kg. They are usually solitary, territorial animals that are only seen together during the mating season or when the female is accompanied by her cubs. Being a nocturnal predator, the leopard becomes active in the late afternoon and rests in the shade during the day.

 

The leopard of the Kalahari are opportunistic feeders and their diet include a wide variety or carnivore prey such as the black-backed jackal, aardwolf, bat-eared fox and genet. They also eat carrion and frut

 

Usually a leopard will watch and then stalk its prey. The prey is usually killed by bites to the throat, neck and base of the skull.

 

 

 

 

         Gemsbok

 

 

Adjustment Layers - are very powerful. They allow the photographer to change, refine an image without destroying the digital information. If the work is saved as a Master file, later it can be changed at will without any deterioration to the image information.

 

We've prepared a short and basic video highlighting some basic manipulations performed using Photoshop Adjustment layers.

 

(You need Wndows Media Prayer.)

 

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 Natural Light with fill-in flash

 

"I don't photograph the world as it is. I photograph the world, as I would like it to be."
          Monte Zucker

 

Two techniques are presented in this article to  illustrate the work of Monte Zucker and Bjorn Thomassen.

Two techniques are discussed - classic and flat lighting portraiture.

 

What does that mean? How to do it? What's the difference between the two techniques?

 

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