Wildlife Photo Competition 4 2017
Results
Winning Photo

An extraordinary and beautifully lit studio style image which has something rather unnatural about it. That front horn and those facial wrinkles seem too perfect to be real. Is this stuffed, made of wax or a digital creation? In any case it represents a black rhino and has been cleverly mastered. Let us know how you did this.

Thank you for the honor. I’m Sarel van Staden, an automotive photographer located in South Africa. I developed a lighting technique I use to do car fine art photography and it was this same technique that I used to light this stuffed rhino during a commercial shoot on a game farm.