Photos Stunning portraits with real animals

This Russia artist has managed to create the most awesome portraits I have ever seen. The trick is that she did not use any Photoshop, just her camera and a huge talent.

What do you think? Any similar artists that you know about?

http://goodmood-gm.com/art/photography/stunning-portraits-with-real-animals-katerina-plotnikova/

 

I like photo's of wild animals but prefer it when they're natural, i.e. not posed, and the animals aren't disturbed at all by the process.

Also, you say "she did not use any Photoshop" but they look to me like quite a lot of post-production work has been done on them (not a criticism BTW, just a statement).

 

Lightroom maybe rather than photoshop...

 

Possibly (or Gimp, or Paintshop Pro etc) but usually these days people use the term "Photoshop" to mean any and all post production work. Saying "no Photoshop was used" usually means the image is "SOOC" (straight out of camera) as opposed to processed with alternative software.

Edit: I didn't know they had wild tigers and giraffe in Russia.

 

Yeah - I'd put money on there being post-production (and quite a lot of it) used in those pictures. Maybe the meaning was lost in translation a bit - perhaps it's just meant that photoshop wasn't used to make the appearance of a lady next to a bear, perhaps she actually was next to a wild bear (as unlikely as that sounds lol)

 

She's Russian - I bet they had marksmen ready in case she attacked the poor bear.

 

Huh... that's a smelly fox that fox is holding...