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Hi Andre, amazing details, the side lighting works well here. The warthogs I saw all look greyish. This is beautiful color. TFS. Loi
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Thank you Loi
The warthog typically takes on the colour of the soil of their environment due to their frequent mud baths...
Combine the red soil with the early morning light…a red Warthog!
Andre
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Hi Andre, like the shot, just wished for the whole subject to be in.
TFS
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Hi Steve
Bring your 200-400, no converter!
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Very nice. Amazingly sharp and clear. The side lighting really brought out the skin detail. One thing I picked up on is that the hog appears to be drinking out of an elevated water dish which makes me think manmade. The shot is ground level and I found myself expecting to see its feet. It is a great shot, but the setting just does not look natural to me.
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I have mentioned elsewhere that the same type of shots have been around in europe for a while now. They are unfortunately beginning to all look the same (but with different species obviously)
To me they don't seem natural and as I asked elsewhere- can you alter the set up. If 4 people are doing the same thing from the same set up and then another 4 , and another 4 - well you know what I mean.
The techs are spot on etc but the "feel " of nature photography in the wild "seems to be a thing of the past. There have been a few posted recently on here that are all from the same set up and its pretty obvious. Is that what its all about ? I always like to think that my pics are as you might see the subject in real life. Would you really as a human see a bird ata pool at the same level as yourself???
Fair enough.
Cheers
JohnR
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Good points raise here Morkel, cheers.
Interesting Andre this looks earthy red, the ones here are a dark grey, perhaps he/she had been rolling around in the soil? BTW, a Leopard just took one of these down less than 100m from us earlier this morning, brunch I think.
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Hi Andre - I like the low perspective but agree I would have preferred the whole body in. Morkel makes good points on nature photography. Shooting thousands of images in a couple of weeks I realize just how hard it is to capture something unique. Hopefully, Steve and I won't bore everyone with similar images. We are experimenting a little too. I agree the discussion properly belongs in General Photography. Looking forward to more from the hide.
TFS,
Rachel
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Thank you all for comments!!
Thank you David and John for comments, unlike in a zoo, at Zimanga we are in a cage, not the animals/birds
It is tight, I know, but this is really a bird hide. If a big Pig comes around, I can't help but to shoot him!
We have all used audio, food etc to attract subjects, we are always trying to attract our subjects and to get closer to them. What is the difference between a dam in Kruger Park with a hide? Both are man made.
Man has been putting his stamp on the environment and is constantly destroying it by hunting (legally or poaching) and worse by habitat destruction.
I am afraid everything now is man made, even the great Yellow Stone; Kruger etc…
We are just too many… Animals are now behind fences...
Around our area many of the old cattle farms has been bought up and converted to Private Game Reserves ( Phinda; Thanda, Zululand Rhino Reserve, Zimanga etc). They have been reintroducing species that
were extinct for many a years from our area- lions, buffs, ellies, etc. I dare to say there are more of the Big Five in our area now than a hundred years ago.
Man killed them, Man is bringing them back. This is not just a noble act, they attract visitors- high paying visitors- to experience the "man made" bush with the comforts and guaranteed sightings of at least some of the Big Five.
They are prepared to pay big money, it costs big money to upkeep and establish such a Reserve. They have to charge it to be in existence.
In the end-- more wildlife!!
Like all things in life, it has to make finical sense to invest millions, you have to make a return on your money!
I can continue about my Holy Land(have been going there for 20years); the Kalahari(no hides); where authorities is raping the earth to have MORE visitors paying MORE money,money,money…We can't stop it…I guess that what life is about now,we all want it.
John; about the eye-level water images: ever thought of a pair of waders and an old tripod? Just not in our area, the crocs would love you!
Morkel; thanks for comment and for setting the record straight.
Steve; I hope you have had your converter on the 500! (no hides there!)
Rachel; thanks for comment, good points made.
Hope you both surprise us brilliant images!
Just my half cent's worth
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Overall image quality & techs look good to me Andre, would only wish for a little more room all round.
I have no problem with the angle and whether it's manmade or otherwise, this is the 21st century we all live in, let's accept it and adapt where possible.
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Hi Andre very good answer …………. !!!!!!!! and all right what you stated.
Regarding the image , great sharpness and detail , good colors and overall tonality but i would add some ever so slightly mid tone for some more depth in the tones .
Bit tight all around , but nothing you can do .
Area around rock on LHS looks a bit strange (masking ?)
Like the colors , have you used the PPW panel on this one ?
TFS Andreas
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I guess the tight closeup makes it very interesting
IQ looks fantastic and i recognise the stone there from some other image i have seen here
i like it all the way
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Thank you Vishal for kind comments
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Man-made discussion to one side, this is very nice to look at and the colours are excellent. TFS.
Ed