Time for a Wild Dog?

[Ken Watkins]

A rather straightforward portrait of one of the 22 strong pack, resident in Kwando concession, Botswana, taken 24th December 2011

EOS 1D MkIV

500nn F4 hand-held
F6.3, ISO 800, 1/4000

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I like the pose and crossed legs as well as the catchlight in the eye. However, once again, I feel the yellows are too strong and need to be reduced.

TFS,
Rachel

[Ken Watkins]

Rachel,

The yellows look OK to me on my monitor. The fur of Wild Dogs differs greatly, in fact it is claimed that each one is the equivalent of a fingerprint. I have seen them varying from almost pure white to black and a multitude of colours in between and many many times.

[Tom Graham]

Nice POV, great light on head, eye, mouth, ears. Sunlight but not harsh or blown/blocked, well done. Yellow looks fine to me, in fact when I look at ground/sand has a hint of blue, so, perhaps could be even a bit "warmer"?
Front legs crossed, Ken you must have the best collection of wild dogs with their legs in crazy positions !! :S3:
Tom

[Ken Watkins]

Ken you must have the best collection of wild dogs with their legs in crazy positions !! :S3:
Tom

Tom,
Thanks, I have been very very lucky with Wild Dogs mainly down to my choice of destination and the brilliance of their guides, plus we do like to put in the hours:w3

[Marc Mol]

Simple but effective.:w3
Great expression in soft light Ken, nicely framed.
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

great pose and well exposed Ken
yellow looks fine to me
do you perhaps have a sliver more space on top and RHS? or is this FF?:e3

[peter delaney]

looks good to me....fine portrait

[Steve Canuel]

A nice frame filling pose and comp. May be this different monitor I'm on at the moment but this one also looks like it could use a touch more contrast. I hit it with a bit of the USM contrast trick and it brought out more pop (probably already know but about 25% for amount, radius to taste if you haven't heard of this one)

[Steve Canuel]

Missed the editing deadline by 1 minute. Disregard comment about contrast, looks much better on my regular monitor.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks everybody for your comments,

Morkel,

All space around the dog is as usual full of other Wild Dog bits this is about 50%

[Morkel Erasmus]

Makes sense then, Ken! :bg3: