Theme: Hippo in the Morning

[Katie Rupp]

It was a heavy misting morning and we were hoping to get backlit images of Hippos snorting but that didn't pan out. The hippos were on the top of a dam of sorts which provided this POV and as the mist/fog lifted the shore came into view and I found this one with some separation from the rest of the pod. Kruger Park; Canon 7DmII, 100-400 II @400, F6.3, 1/1250, ISO800 C&C encouraged and greatly appreciated!

Cheers and Thanks,

Katie

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Katie - You did a nice job with the side lighting and the colors look good. I like the low pov and the sort of impressionist bg. Looks like he's in an infinity pool. The only thing I don't love are the grey and blue bands of water at the bottom but I think you need the room at the bottom so can't remove them. Maybe cropping the blue out still gives you enough. Let's see what others say.

TFS,
Rachel

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Hi Katie, great low POV, nice look at the snout and those eyes and ears.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Katie, I quite like the overall composition and having the mountains in the BKG gives the image some depth. It's a little tight perhaps to the LHS and so if this is cropped I might personally prefer a little more space added here. I do like the low POV, it's always nice and I quite like the strata of blue water. I feel you needed more DoF, but then your SS would have been compromised, however leaving the DoF as is, I think more SS would have help here, not sure if this was from a boat, HH, supported... but 1/2000 I feel would have provided a 'crisper' image. In this instance, like Dans Beaver, I would run some NR over the water to smooth it out, looks a bit grainy, was the image lightened at all in PP???

TFS
Steve

[haseeb badar]

Hi Katie -- You have got an incredible POV ! i loved this image , lovely light . noise is quite evident though which could be easily fixed ! TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

Hey Katie - good to see you posting after your extended time in Southern Africa!
I really love this - the angle, the light, the BG
Let's see some more, eh...

[Katie Rupp]

Hi Katie, I quite like the overall composition and having the mountains in the BKG gives the image some depth. It's a little tight perhaps to the LHS and so if this is cropped I might personally prefer a little more space added here. I do like the low POV, it's always nice and I quite like the strata of blue water. I feel you needed more DoF, but then your SS would have been compromised, however leaving the DoF as is, I think more SS would have help here, not sure if this was from a boat, HH, supported... but 1/2000 I feel would have provided a 'crisper' image. In this instance, like Dans Beaver, I would run some NR over the water to smooth it out, looks a bit grainy, was the image lightened at all in PP???

TFS
Steve

Thanks, Steve for the comments and questions as I'm always interested in ideas and suggestions. It is a crop so I could include more on the left; this was hand-held and I was standing out on some wet rocks for a long time so a higher SS may have been needed. No lightening in PP and lately I have been conscious of over-sharpening images when processing so didn't add much to this. Thanks again.