Incredible Nature Photography

Jeremy Ordan

Jeremy Ordan

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Literally 'stumbled' upon this. Some of the most breathtaking images I have ever seen in my entire life.

http://www.younggalleryphoto.com/photography/brandt/brandt.html


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nick brandt's stuff is gob smackingly beautiful, funny that my 2 favourite english photographers have the same surname though i'm pretty sure nick is not related to bill brandt whose images concentrate on a completely different beast
 
He just captured the raw essence of these animals. Absolutely incredible.

-Kegan
 
pest22o said:
how doe she get those looks?
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Well the number 1 key to good nature photography is patience... waiting for the right light and composition, moving your body rather than just zooming.

A lot of the unique look comes from processing... burning and dodging.

On top of that there are a couple of IR images.


The real question should not be how does this person get that look but rather why is this look effective for these images?

Look over some of the greats and you can see that certain looks work better for certain images. What does this processing make you feel as compared with some of Nathan Scott's images for National Geographic?
 
not to mention, she has to have a pretty big f'in lens to get those creatures that crisp and big. Also in nature photography, luck is probably 50% of the battle. That elephant shot she had to be in the perfect place at the perfect time for that.

If you ever watch the making for Planet Earth, watch the episode of that poor guy in the rainforest who had to wait a month just for a 4 minute shot of a bird he needed.
 
Nice find. Funny how my pictures from some of the same places look so different, so how should I say - crappy!
 
It really is about patience, and taking lots of photographs. It's like that for any photographer that wants to capture life or nature. You just keep shooting away, or waiting.

I remember doing my project in photo class, noticing that a lot of photographers used to go through dozens and dozens of rolls before they found that one "perfect" shot. You could take hundreds of photos and not come out with something amazing or up to your expectations in any of them.

Obviously the better you get, the more chances you'll find an amazing photograph, or your expectations will grow even higher and it'll be about the same.

Those are beautiful images. Everything jut looks surreal in those images. I love surreal photographs.
 
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