This was a photo from a National Geographic "100 Best Unpublished Pictures." I didn't have time to go look for something, so the Zoo came to me.
Mounted image on piece of plexiglass, and used flash at an angle that gave the least reflections. Used fast shutter to make background go dark. Used packing peanuts ground-up for snow, and there you have it.
Burned the dark background, blurred the snow, and edited out some "Snow" that didn't look like snow.
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I like the profile you've captured...very interesting angle of view, but the image appears too dark and the animals head is blending in with the background. Meets the challenge theme well.
Its too underexposed. This kind of has a dark artsy feel to it, which I like. I don't feel that's a good quality in the photojournalistic world of magazines like NG. It's a little too much like a mug shot.
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