Wildlife Photography Critique: Editing Your Photos with Frans Lanting | OPTIC All Stars

[@FronbondiSkegs]

Incredible how much I've learned from the few videos of Frans critiquing these images. Amazing...

[@windynotes]

Thanks B&H, your presentations & workshops are the best around in content quality & production. Keep it up.

[@natureexploration]

Thank you for sharing! Frans is great and a good teacher. I joined his workshop "Telling stories with pictures" back in 2010, and I highly recommend his workshops.

[@troutsqueezer]

I'm glad to see videos like this one out there for sure but you know, we don't all see eye-to-eye on what should be done on any given photo. For example, the Loon photo. We see the Loon swimming into the edge of the shot. In my opinion, that's a no-no. It's fairly easy to create in Photoshop, a blank image (color doesn't matter) which is slightly wider than the image of the Loon. Import the Loon image into the new blank page as a new layer. Now you have some space in front of the Loon to clone some water in front of him that he can swim into. Also, the small branches in the groundhog/marmot shot should be cloned out. Also, I agree with one of the posters, black and white doesn't work more than it does work (my words, not his) - colors can and many times should be, enhanced.

[@kimmhoek9846]

Great presentations - watched both and enjoyed both. Also leaned a few things. Thanks!

[@lynneroberts4854]

Great presentation, thank you. Lots of great advice on framing the subject.

[@nasiddiky4071]

Kudos to all your efforts!

[@ktjankabar]

That was great; enjoyed the pics and the feedback!

[@kbdigitalpvd]

Not everything has to be black and white.

[@lvds5910]

I agree, but look up this guy´s work (if you have not already). He´s amazing with color. Fact is, he´s working with some mediocre at best pictures in this video. They have a lot of distractions in the frame. B&W conversion often helps with minimizing those distractions. When he has good photographs to work with, with no distractions or with great colors in them, he often does not convert them to B&W. Examples of this are the loon, the black bears and the hummingbird etc.

[@Superbus753]

The rodent that you couldn’t identify is a marmot as far as i know

[@unaxe]

Bro ruined all photos he does not know what he is doing.

[@stefanschug5490]

The two bears you identified in one of the images are not both black bears. The frontal one with the fish in its mouth is a black bear but the one following it in the back is definitely a grizzly bear. The hump, head shape and especially the long claws shown are unmistakably identifying it as a grizzly.

[@dsutor]

I think both are brown bears.