Image taken at Salton Sea, California last month. This is a male. He came out of the burrow and saw me and expressed some agitation, but his mate accepted me, so eventually he settled down. For more than 1 hour, they were just standing in front of the burrow, not hunting or anything, just sunning themselves. So I left to them to their own.
1DX
500f4 II + 1.4X III = 700mm
1/2000
f9
ISO-1000
Handheld
Cropped all around for comp, final image ~ 60% of FF
Hello loi, the face does look a bit over sharpened on my monitor but that could be my eyes that apart I really like the pose and the bg,a real good looking image.
Nice shot Loi and I like the stare and the fact that the eyes are completely lit. The detail looks good to me but I too think it needs a slight decrease in exposure, maybe a third. Nice work.
Thank you everyone for your comments. I reduced the exposure by 0.22EV (the white is now at 228), cropped a wee bit on both left and right to avoid some distracting highlights in the BG, and back off on UMS. Before 100/0.3/0 => 80/0.3/0. It was a pretty sharp image to begin with :)