To
many, this may look like I drew the lion in the grass with Photoshop, but
that’s not the case. I did not touch anything in this picture. It is exactly as I took it.
Interestingly,
the reason the lion looks like a painting is because the pixels
are spread out which makes the details softer. At
the time I shot this picture, I was just transitioning from film to digital and
had a small point and shoot 5 megapixel camera. If I had a camera with more
megapixels, I’m not sure I would have gotten the same effect in the photo.
That’s where the magic happens. I zoomed in to frame the lion with the tree in
the background, but let the camera focus. This made the lion appear like a
drawing or painting because of its natural camouflage in the red oat grass.
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