Hi all ,
keep going with my "film experiment " within DPP 4 .
Image of the Red Hartebeest taken close to Polentswa camp on our way home to camp site in late afternoon light .
As the RHB are a bit skittish from time to time is was quite happy to get that close .
Canon EOS 1 Dx
Ef 500 IS L
Bean bag
F 6,3 ; Iso 800 ; 1/1250 sec
Processed with DPP 4 , Velvia 100 F preset , PS CC , cropped for comp , some tonal adjustments and local contrast , downsized and sharpened . I keep the blues in the subject because in the slides there have been the blues , too !!!!
Thanks for looking and commenting to my previous posting , C&C welcome.
Hi Andreas - Yes, IME also they are a bit skittish so always nice to get a shot in the can so to speak. This is nicely isolated. It's pose on the rise has given you a nice drop off to the bg. The only thing it did not cooperate about was posing with the sun at a good angle. For me, the heavy shadows detract from the image but bringing them up more would look unnatural.
very nice pose of this animal. Skittish, well not where I have seen them so far! I think the rhs of the face could do with a tad lifting the shadows, body is fine for me. Just the face would check how that looks! Details as usual as far I see that.
Tip of the rhs horn has "blue"
Nice detail and he pops from the BG. Colours look good but I do feel the wrong side is in shadow. Was it possible to move more to the left? I also like the OOF foreground.
Thanks Rachel;Anette and Dumay for your kind comments , as always much appreciated .
Anette - yes blue in there ...... should be because of Fuji film preset within DPP , i wanted to " copy " that film look .Opening up shadows just on the face .......... not that cool i think. All shadows should have the same lightness more or less , under these conditions .
Dumay - as these guys are sometimes skittish and sometimes not - i did not want to move the car , i could have because i was alone there . This guy was approaching me so i thought donīt scare him off , that was the reason for this shooting angle , hope you understand. But like you and Rachel i would have preferred a slightly different one. .
Rachel - agree re sun angle , but as i explained to Dumay no moving possible at that point .
Lucky you to get a shot of this animal....I think most everything has been said on the shot in previous comments, but I would lift the shadows just a wee bit.
Hi Andreas, a nice subject not often posted, so thanks.
I like the warm tones and richness of the hide, but the light has created some tough shadows and agree on the fact lightening things are not an option as outlined by Rachel. Did you stop first or the HB? I quite like the comp with the mush FG and hint of the sky, but feel the subject should be a little more to the left wit more space to the right for my tastes, not much, but just to balance things out.
Thanks Charleen and Steve for your comments , much appreciated .
Steve as i already stated i also thought with hindsight it would have been nice to get more of the sunlit side of the subject , but as they are somehow sensitive i was afraid of chasing him off and he was approaching me quickly from the distance while i was arriving at the scene . so i thought just stay still and see what happens . In the end he decided to move to LHS fully strong side/ backlight . So this was the best i could do from my POV . I actually do not mind that much the sun angle . It is just a 50/50 situation to like it or not . Re crop , my thinking was i need more space to the left rather the right , because the antelope i s facing that way so i gave him room to look into .
Hope you understand my points , you must not agree ..
Yep, sometimes a hard call to make Andreas and often they will make the wrong move, it's called sod's law. I don't think it's a deal breaker, but this is why I say things about the subject and try to predict it, a bit like a Chess game, anticipate the next two moves ahead where you can, not always easy, but sometimes you strike lucky.
Thanks Steve agree with you about the game , many times i was wrong with my prediction on my trips in the past , sometimes i got lucky i.e. WB jumping into my car . As i am not a bush man like Dumay who can better predict what the animals might do , as he is out there a lot more than we are . So i have to do more trial and error ,again it is more gambling than knowledge .
These guys are so quirky. I like the pose, BG, overall colour - but also feel the shadows are a bit overbearing. Still a nice image!
I too find them a tad skittish.