DSLR Photography Forum

I took this shot of a baby rhino with its mother a week ago at the zoo. What I have done is that I cropped it from the full-res picture in to enlarge them. Now what I am not sure of is the placing, what would be the best position? Dead centre, slightly off centre, to the left or to the right? I have no idea behind the concept of positioning, I used to just play around and see what worked for me. I also tried to replicate the effect of soft filter/lightining using photoshop, not sure if it looks good but I like how it turned out.

Feel free to point me in the right direction.

Great shot - mother and baby. I'd probably try an even tighter crop (if your resolution allows it) - to take out the rock on the left, and also the stuff above the fence in the top.

It's nice... I noticed the soft lighting straight away and thought to myself - he's done something different here.

There are some interesting blurring effects. The skin looks too smooth. I actually like the way it looks. Am I correct about post process filters here?

--Don

Its a nice shot as it is - I tried a few crops and nothing was obviously better than your capture. I like it best cropped close on the right and with a bit of space on the left - where the mother is looking, and a bit off the bottom. Unfortunately, the rock or whatever on the lower left is terribly distracting and so I cloned it out.

sort of like this:



I like the Smart Blur (my guess) - some might think it a bit overdone - but no matter - it looks good with this photo - makes it look quite surreal and dreamlike.

Thanks for the comments, the reason I kept it like that was to keep the original ratio of the photos. The log is quite distracting and would've certainly looked better if it wasn't in the picture. I also thought about cropping it so that you couldn't see the stuff above the fence, but I wanted the fence to be obvious and I love the the way the fence is put together, pity what's behind it doesn't look all that nice.