Playful Lechwe

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

This was in the late evening when the light was beautiful, this was almost as if Okavango was a large theatre and it was all laid out in front of us. Got some nice images that day.
1/1000
f/8
ISO 800
7D II
400mm

[Shawn Zierman]

Light quality is really great! The interaction between the two could not have been rendered better, great eye contact, catchlights, and dof is right on. The bit of water in the fg/reflections adds visual interest without being distracting. In this case, cloning out the branch that runs into the backside of the lechwe on the left seems worth considering.

[christopher galeski]

nice capture,loverly light,good detail,like the environment and action,agree with Shawn about the branch.TFS

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Sanjeev - One of your best! Gorgeous light, nice behavioral action and well processed. It all comes together here. The placement of the stick is unfortunate (seems like there always has to be something). You could easily clone it if you want. Congrats on this one!

TFS,
Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Sanjeev, gorgeous light, very typical of the location. Would echo the above comments.

TFS
Steve

[Karen Pleasant]

Sweet light and a wonderful interaction between the two lechwe. The HAs and catch lights are quite good. I like the partial reflections in the water. TFS!

[Gabriela Plesea]

Sanjeev - this is MONEY SHOT

Beautiful light and colours and so much body language from the two characters, not to forget those eyes... I just love the interaction!

Well exposed, lovely warm colours, nice DOF, this is well executed from the technical POV and well processed, superb work!

Framing works well for me, you could perhaps - just for interest' sake - take some of the bottom, just above the reflection, to create a pano effect and direct all attention to the subjects alone. The branch must go if you decide to print, pretty please

You are producing some excellent work lately, I am very excited and pleased about your progress and cannot wait to see more

Have a super evening,

[haseeb badar]

Hi Sanjeev -- Indeed a very pretty image ! excellent light and compo, agree with cloning out the stick . Very nicely done . TFS !

[Morkel Erasmus]

Gorgeous image, Doc! Agree, one of your best (see, it's not always about the "Big 5" eh?)
I would tone down overall brightest brights with a 20% luminosity mask, though, would bring out more detail in the Lechwes too.