Design Competition - Part 2 - Final Work - Wolves

 Wolves

Here are the four photos I would submit to the BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. My entry would fall in the category of "terrestrial wildlife". I have chosen four photos of wolves that I took at a wolf sanctuary in New Jersey last Spring. The concept of my competition submission is to raise awareness on wolves through photos. I believe the right photos can really effect someone. You can see a photo of an animal and be drawn to look into more information on it. That is my hope for these photos. That they will incite interest into the viewer and they will learn more about wolves. Wolves tend to be viewed negatively and I want to help change that and help people realize how important it is to protect them. I have used Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom on this project.

With each photo I began in Photoshop. I adjusted the color balance, and used a high pass filter to sharpen the fur. I also used the hue/saturation adjustment layer to enhance the colors in the fur. In the second photo I also enhanced the eye color, using the dodge tool. Once I was happy with my edits in Photoshop I went to Lightroom. In Lightroom I applied more sharpening effects as well has clarity and some adjustments in hue. In the first photo I cropped the other wolf out of the photo because he was too out of focus.

The requirements for this competition were 1-10 jpg photos. The file names were required to be as follows lastname_firstinital_category_title.jpg. The competition ends on 3/31/16. This contest is open to all photographers. I will not be actually entering my photos into the competition.