Hippo

[Keith Rawlins]

Hippo taken on the Olifants river within the greater Kruger national Park. Just after the river had settled after having come down in flood.
Camera: Canon 1DmIII
Lens: canon 300 2.8 is usm coupled with a X2 convertor
Speed: 1/1000
App: F/8.0
Iso: 400
Flash: Off
App priority

[Alfred Forns]

Classic opening pose Love the angle and the water dropping down his chin Would give more room all around the frame. Not much you can do about the harsh light except using a drop in polarizer filter

Don't see a razor sharp point in the image. Will wait for others to ring in ... just got up If you need more shutter speed don't hesitate to go up the Mk3 performs very well brw used the eye to color balance the image and found a slight cast posting below

[Steve Maxson]

Great action. I agree with Al about the tightness of the frame. I note a lot of noise in the background - much more than I would expect with this camera and ISO combination. Did you do a large crop on this image?

[Robert Amoruso]

I like the pose and agree with the comments on the color cast and noise. Is this from a JPG as the artifacting and noise looks like a JPG with multiple saves?

[D. Robert Franz]

Great image but I agree with the above comments on IQ. Very stange for this combo......

[Georgina Salup]

Great capture! A readl amazing animal.