Taken last month on one of my trips to east africa, thought it might look good in monochrome
Nikon D810
1/320 f5.6
iso 320
200-500 at 290mm
conversion and adjustments in lightroom
Hi Bryan - I like the way the light is hitting the eye. The monochrome works though I might go for a bit more punch if it were mine. Is this a crop? Any more room around?
thanks, I actually lowered the contrast for the post as there were a few comments about burnt out highlights in previous posts, this version is more to my personal taste:
Hi Bryan, for me I feel the OP has a better tonal range, albeit I'm away at present. I also think there is not much tonal separation between the subject & the environment. A fraction lower so you are almost at eye level would have made all the difference as you still have this feeling of shooting down at an age, pulling back would have helped as you had plenty of zoom. I find the crop a fraction too tight, inclusion of more of the paws with some ground would be far better. Gain a hint more ISO i.e. 800 would have also helped the SS unless this was on a fixed Gimbal, it really does help when HH.