Making pictures stand out can be quite easy giving the opportunity in hand and in your favour, there can be many distractions in an image but what you want to try and do is pull the audience into your subject. I have picked a few pictures to give you an idea.

With the tracker using the spotlight at night, it really focuses on your subject, blocking out a lot of the other distractions with the main focus being the animal in the center spotlight so to speak. Some images might need some more post processing than others in which to stand out more. The image below is of Kigelia female leopard resting after a successful kill she had made. She was quite full when we found her and she was fast asleep. A moth was attracted by the spotlight and landed on her paw - Kigelia then found this amusing and started trying to catch it. She was sat on a river bank with the opposite side of the bank quite far in the distance, not catching much of the spotlight. With the little bit of light, I simply dropped the shadows and black down in Lightroom making sure there were no distractions and making Kigelia trying to catch a moth stand out.

One of the Southern Pride cubs steps out of the shadow with just a touch of sunlight catching the face, really making the facial features stand out. The processing of this image was minimal - first step was converting it into monochrome then I used the vignetting tool in Lightroom to make the corners darker.

Owls are really nice subjects to photograph as they often sit on a dead tree or branch with very little to no objects behind them making them really easy to stand out.

Verreaux’s Eagle Owl

Southern White-faced Owl