Photographed in Chobe National Park, April, 2014. This is taken from the Unimog safari vehicle, a monster of a machine! A herd of impala were near the road, looking intently at something I did not see. I was attracted to the heads and ears all turned in the same direction. I did clone away bits of an impala in the bkgd on the right.
Canon 1DX, Canon 400 f4 DO IS, 1/500, f5.6, ISO 800.
Hi Nancy i like this in general with a nice depth in the image , by the layered Impalas. Good overall contrast , for me and the high key BKG.Colors are having a magenta shift , i would remove or reduce it depending on your preference.There are blue/cyans creeping through , again matter of taste what to do.
The blacks are a bit heavy in the shadows ,but if you want to achieve this look , i am ok with it.Another option would be adding some mid tone adjustment just to the Impalas for more tonal depth .
i would go for 5x4 crop by losing some of the RHS ? WDYT.
Hi Nancy - nicely seen and captured. It was great for them to all look in the same direction, so often impalas are uncooperative with them all facing in different directions and at least one or two showing you their rear while eating . Detail on the front one looks good. Any more room on top just to clear the ears of the one in the bg? I also wonder if cropping the front one's twisted body from the bottom might enhance the image. It seems to work from a screen scroll but I would probably want to look at them side by side for a while to decide which I liked better. I too immediately saw the blues coming in near the blacks of the ears, noses and mouths. Overall, this works well and is different so congrats!
I reworked the image and hopefully incorporated all the very helpful suggestions. Funny about that color thing. I see it when someone calls my attention to it, but not on my own. I am working on training my eyes . And I see again, that the colors have shifted very much to the red from what I see on my screen in PS, when I look at the 2 images side by side on my screen. Where & what should I look at in color management to prevent this, since I see 2 color renditions on the same screen?
Cast blast. I find the color tones of the OP much more pleasing. Love the line-up. And while I like the wider crop of the OP better, the only thing that really bugs me is the mixed lighting, i.e., the sun on the front animal's back and the backs of a few heads...
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ps: if it were mine I'd clean up the two white spots on the snout of the leader....
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Artie, photographed these in late morning with over head sun and blotchy shade from thin trees nearby. Drove all morning, starting just at sunrise and saw nothing until these impala hours later with the much stronger sun. Thanks for the suggestion on those white spots.
Thanks Nancy.And YAW. I know the drill; I have been doing this nature photography stuff for a while. There is no crying in baseball and there are no excuses in nature photography; the image is what the image is and the light was what the light was. You did your best and made a very strong image. Laslty, and I do not mean to be harsh, when critiquing an image, nobody cares or should care if you crawled a thousand miles through the desert to make the image. All that folks can do is comment honestly on the image :). I do the same thing at times, fall in love with an image because the bird is a rarity or because making it required a lot of effort.....
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