Blackbuck female

[vishaljadhav]

This one is a female of the Black buck (Antilope cervicapra) these are found over the grasslands in India, last week visited a grass land in Western India called Velavdar.

Found these guys crossing the path and some decided to leap, tried to click a few in air managed a few decent images

5D MIII + 400 f2.8 + 2x TC

1/3200, f7.1 ISO 1000



This was made hand held as i did not have time to set up the tripod

Let me know your views
Critiques and comments welcome
helps me learn

best regards
vishal

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Vishal - great timing and sharpness looks good. I'm not sure on the color having not seen these in person but there appears to be a yellow cast to the whites at least. I would reduce the yellows in the whites significantly in selective color. It also seems to need some ccw rotation. Minor tweaks that will take this already excellent image up a notch.

TFS,
Rachel

[John Ippolito]

Sharp, dynamic capture. Very, very nice.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Vishal, this is, a very nice capture indeed. I really like the colour palette and soft muted colours. Good space around the subject and enough in front. I'm away so can't really comment too much on colour/yellow cast? Have you softened/blurred the BKG at all or is this all in camera?

TFS, nice work.

Steve

[Morkel Erasmus]

Lovely timing and image clarity here Vishal! I do wish the buck was leaping more towards you, but it's not a deal-breaker for me here. They look similar to our impala and even the leaping pose is very similar to how impala leap when running. I too feel there's too much yellow coming through, but take that as lightly as you would from someone who has never seen this antelope in real life (which I haven't).

[vishaljadhav]

Hi Vishal, this is, a very nice capture indeed. I really like the colour palette and soft muted colours. Good space around the subject and enough in front. I'm away so can't really comment too much on colour/yellow cast? Have you softened/blurred the BKG at all or is this all in camera?

Steve

Thanks Steve,
The yellow on the buck is more natural, its more due to the light thats there in Western parts where evenings get too yellow in colour , some of us call it the golden light conditions

In terms of the BKG its completely out of the camera , the 400 f2.8 does give some interesting smooth backgrounds, the distance of the BKG from the subject is big not sure how many 100s of meters

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Vishal, thanks for coming back with more info, this is so helpful and clarifies any questions raised.

Obviously being a fixed lens it will compress the BKG nicely and at f7.1 you have a good DoF for the subject. The reason I asked the question was looking at the grass in the FG, it's 'sharp' as expected but it seems to take a diagonal line from RH corner slightly going up on the LHS, but I think it's an optical illusion, it was just more a curious question. Thanks again.