Young Sable

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Mapula Concession, Northern Botswana, 15th March 2009.

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS hand-held

F6.3, 1/1000, ISO 800, EV +2/3rds

Marvelous how they pose behind the long grass?
Should I have taken out the termite mound?

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice capture, if tight at the bottom for the feet. Some may find the vegetation inf front of him distracting. I like it, since I still him and it gives me a sense of the habitat. The whites areas, do distract, maybe burning them or multiplying will take the edge off them. I wouldn't have taken out the mound, just make it darker.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
I would have tried a wider composition with space all around. I would have used a lower shutter speed and a narrow aperture. Since you handhold, I don't know whether that would be a good idea. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
I would have tried a wider composition with space all around. I would have used a lower shutter speed and a narrow aperture. Since you handhold, I don't know whether that would be a good idea. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Ken Watkins]

Fabs, T
hanks for your comments, I will try to see what I can do about darkening the termite mound.

Sabyasachi
The only cropping is of the left hand side that included a partial sable. As you say handholding can sometimes be restrictive, and other times not, the major limitation is the ability to brace yourself or find somehere convenient for your bean-bag, unfortunately I had left that in my car at Maun Airport.

[Stu Bowie]

You have exposed his colours perfectly Ken, and what a lovely pose. I would try and darken the lower half of the image, and always try and leave space for the legs and feet, even if you cant see them. Great capture Ken.

[D. Robert Franz]

Love Sable they are magnificant animals. Pretty much agree with Fabs here....