Wild Dog Portrait

[Rachel Hollander]

Taken in the Sabi Sands in August 2009.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/640
f8.0
ISO 400
HH from safari vehicle, cropped from horizontal to vertical to get rid of oof tree across body.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Harshad Barve]

lovely alert ears and nice pose , though right now I am not on calibrated monitor colors looks good to me
TFS

[Tom Graham]

V nice, light, exposure, color, crop.
Perhaps a bit more sharpening, but I'm not fussy about that.
Tom

[Hilary Hann]

Wild dog portraits are always a winner with me. I think you can still see some oof branches across the rhs of the dog, but not too distracting. Agree with Tom, could bear some extra, selective sharpening around eyes.

[Ken Watkins]

This seems to be on the edge of losing detail, is it a large crop.
If possible try lightening the shadows a little and then try sharpening in small stages.

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks all for the comments. It's more crop than I generally like to do but I'm not sure on the percentage. I'm always nervous about too much sharpening so err on the side of caution. I'll see if selective sharpening does it. Thanks again,

Rachel