Thirsty

[BenBotha]

Canon 40D
Canon 100-400 L IS
F 7,1
ISO 320
1/2000

Early morning at a waterhole in Etosha. C&C welcome

Ben

[Carl Walker]

Super light and framing here Ben. Nice to see a different drinking posture although not uncommon. Was this a biggish crop? TFS

[BenBotha]

Thanks for the comment. Crop about 10%, removed a sliver of dirt at the bottom to keep fore ground only as water. Ben

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Ben - beautiful morning light. It's not always easy to isolate a single animal at an Etosha waterhole. Interesting pose with it on bent foreleg to drink. Good sharpness too. I wonder about taking a little off the top to more of a pano with an all grass bg rather than the dirt at the top.

TFS,
Rachel

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice pose in amazing light. Nice clarity...did you do noise reduction on the Oryx? it just seems to be lacking fine detail. I would also crop some off the top and add more at the bottom if you have it. I like this one!

[BenBotha]

Thanks for the comments. I do have shot with less background. I also noticed the detail that is less on the rump but not on the hind leg. ? The 40D IQ not coping with the fine hair detail.
Ben

[BenBotha]

Less sharpening, slightly different crop. WDYT?

Ben

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Ben - the rp looks better to me in terms of both comp and detail. It also is a bit warmer/redder. I would drop the reds a bit in a hue/saturation layer.

TFS,
Rachel

[Morkel Erasmus]

Nice posture and light Ben. IQ issues noted, but the RP looks better to me.
I know this waterhole is curving around where the Gemmie is drinking, but would still rotate this one slightly CCW?

[BenBotha]

Thanks, the water edge varies in height and curves in to the right. Thanks for the comments and suggestions. Ben

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Ben nice Etosha light , prefer the crop /colors from OP and the details from RP .

TFS Andreas

[Dumay de Boulle]

Hi ben...I am with Andreas, I prefer the crop, colours and the PP work from the OP and the detail in the fur from the repost.