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    Hi friends,

    Goitred gazelle lives in Middle-east and center of Asia. I took this one in Shirahmad Protected Area in north-east of Iran, when herd come to the pond for drinking water.
    I hope you like it.
    Thanks for comments.

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    Hi Amir - Nicely seen and captured. I like that it's a male and female pair. Is this full frame? I would prefer to have the rest of the reflection if you have it. Your image also does not have an embedded color profile. I embedded an sRGB profile and also gave it a little more punch with a simple slight s curve adjustment. If it were mine, I would back off on the sharpening of the foliage around the gazelles.

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    Hi Rachel,
    It's almost full frame and I missed the rest of the reflection. Sorry for lacking embedded color profile. My future posts will have it. I like your version Rachel.
    Thanks a lot for your useful comment.
    Regards,

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    Lovely capture Amir,

    Never seen this species before and therefore I did some research on the Internet - it is listed as endangered species in your country?

    I like Rachel's RP for it brings some much needed warmth on the subjects as well as vegetation. I personally do not feel the need to see full reflection in the water, instead I would have liked to see more space above. I am tempted to try a more pano crop and take off from the bottom of the image, if only to compensate for the tightness at the top, and since you do not have the full reflection anyway - just another option and not necessarily the best one:)

    Hope you post some more images ( I am sure there must be more where this came from...), should you wish to receive more feedback do try and give us some information about your processing steps as well as software you are using.

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    Thank you Gabrela,
    Yes. in Iran this species is highly endangered and mostly we can find them just in Protected areas.
    I almost do any pp, just about 20% crop, a bit increasing contrast, resize and sharpening.
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    Amir

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    Hi Amir, firstly, addressing the correct embedded colour profile sRGB will ensure your images will be portrayed to their best as Rachel pointed out.

    Looking at the techs I feel f/10 is a bit much, your not going to get both sharp as they appear not to be on the same plane of focus IMHO and the male is walking away, so I may have dropped down, giving more SS for the male. Agree, more space is needed above, in moving the whole crop up, still retaining say half the water, this would create a better balance to me, but often hard to always to think about thinks in the heat of the moment. Based on your posting I would also increase the exposure, it looks flat and so upping the exposure (based on the Histogram), whites & highlights the image starts to improve and the whole image has more depth & form. I would also watch when processing that the 'blacks' don't become too strong and choke key areas like the eyes.
    This is just my take on on your OP and my suggestions, thanks for participating in other threads, it's very much appreciated and a great way to learn too.

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    Thanks a lot steve, for your kind and useful comment.
    There are too much that I should learn about PP.
    As I was almost close to these beautiful Gazelles, I used F10 just to be sure about enough DOF, but you're right. Maybe it was not necessary.
    The eyes is too dark in this species and I couldn't extract any details from them in any of my shots.
    Regarding other's comments, I tried to take another frame. Consider that there is any crop from top and left.
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    Hello Amir,

    I lightened the eyes a bit, upped exposure (selectively) - see if it works for you?

    Thank you for RP, I think you're on the right track now following Mr. Kaluski's advice

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    Hi Amir, although I'm viewing on the laptop, your RP looks much better and with the collective points raised in the feedback good call in trying to incorporate things.

    Sadly PP is an inherent part of digital photography, although you don't need to know everything, nor will you, trust me, understanding the basics will help you to achieve a lot. Getting a good, well exposed image firstly will require less PP.

    Everything takes time, try not to run, but always enjoy.

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    Hi Amir - sorry to be slow to get back to this but your rp looks good. I should have said I did not do anything to the wb (no warmth added) just embedded the profile and the slight curves adjustment.

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    Thank you so much guys.
    I'm happy to be with you.

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    A lot's been said here already, Amir.
    I like the perspective and the poses of the antelopes. Your repost crop was also my first thought when I opened it up.
    I enjoy seeing wildlife from your part of the world, keep them coming...
    Morkel Erasmus

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