Family Life

[Ken Watkins]

Two young Red Hartebeest with their nurse.

Taken in Mokala National Park, South Africa, 25th April 2012

EOS 1D MkIV

500mm F4 hand-held

F4, ISO 800, 1/1600

On a dull day

[Morkel Erasmus]

nice soft light here Ken, always a joy to see "Harties" little ones... :w3
seems like the ungulates could do with some slight additional sharpening - particularly the faces?

[dankearl]

Really light and very nice habitat, Ken.
Looks sharp enough to me.

[Ken Watkins]

Looks sharp enough to me.

Me too!

[Morkel Erasmus]

Aren't both of your pairs of eyes much older and worn out than mine? :Whoa!:
Just sayin' :w3

[Ken Watkins]

Aren't both of your pairs of eyes much older and worn out than mine? :Whoa!:
Just sayin' :w3

Probably, I for one have seen far too many things:w3

[Steve Canuel]

Such cool looking antelope and I really like the comp of the three different animals along with the soft look of the habitat. Ken, hate to rework one of your images but before I decide which vision camp I belong in does this look like an improvement to you? I'm finding a lot of your recent posts seeming to need a touch more light, contrast, and sharpness than what they used to. Personal preferences of course but I'll certainly refrain from future comments about those factors if you feel I'm missing something (and make an eye appointment for myself).

[Ken Watkins]

Steve,

Many thanks for the re-post, it certainly has brought more life to the image.

If my images posted lately seem to be darker, this probably results from the largely dull light we had on our recent trip, and to my eyes largely reflect what we saw.

There have been no major changes to my normal processing that I can think of.

I did, however get some new glasses with Nikon lenses:bg3:

[Rachel Hollander]

Ken - I'm in the newer eyes camp, the op needed a tad more sharpening. Steve's repost really takes this up a notch. I do, however, wish that you either had the whole adult or excluded it completely.

TFS,
Rachel