Hello! " Up, Up & Away"
Posting an image of Blackbuck,a fast breeding species of deer. They do create magic moments like these. A nice looking subject, shy of photographers, but fun to image
Canon EOS 7D, canon 500 mm f/4@ f/4, i/1600, ISO 250, Evaluative metering, manual exposure, Handheld. PS CC 2017, Curves, contrast, Cropped 20% from original, sharpening, NR.
There was a bit of the ground from where it too off, but had a lot of the grass adding not much to the image, hence cropped out.
Velavadar National park, Gujarat, India
All critique welcome.
Thanks for watching
Regards
Abhijit
I think it looks quite dark and by looking at the histogram you can up the exposure. The techs are not that pleasing , i might have gone for something between f5.6 to 7.1 range and that iso is again lacking. one or two rounds of sharpening will further add to the sharpness , appears a bit soft to me. Nicely done.
Impressive capture well done! I would be inclined to go back to the raw and increase exposure or remap the mid tones, the image looks a bit too dark to me (though I note you have used the histogram extremeties). I must admit I would be thrilled to bits to get a shot like this.
Hi Abhijit - excellent timing and also great positioning in the frame. Not easy to do. You've gotten excellent suggestions from Haseeb and Jon both for in the field and in pp. I agree with all of them, especially the additional sharpening to the buck.
Hi Abhijit, I also concur with the critiques so far on brightness and level of detail. I think this is worth revisiting as the shot has a lot going for it as you've captured an excellent moment here.
Hi Abhijit. what a great dynamic capture of the Black Buck .
Timing and framing does look about perfect to me , i do agree with the others about the " technical " stuff.A revisit is well worth a try.
TFS Andreas
BTW ....this species does not belong to the deer family , it is an antelope .
Hi,
Thanks all of you for your inputs & appreciation.
Posting a RP. I upped the exposure, played a bit with curves, cropped, sharpened with Smart sharpen, applied NR, did a second round of sharpening. Please lemme now if i ve made a mistake anywhere? is it any better now.
Thanks Haseeb,Jon,Rachel,Glenn for the technical critique..
Thanks Andreas for correcting me on the species thing.
Regards
Abhijit
Great timing here and perfect framing! I just think 1/1600s was just not enough for this fast flying (and very beautiful) subject, 1/2500s would have given you so much more detail I guess this leap was a bit of a surprise for you, so no time to change settings?
Just asking out of curiosity: where is the focal point, can you check? Otherwise, the buck stands out nicely against the dark BG ( BTW, RP is much better) and I really like this outstretched body across the frame.
A well composed image and really a magic moment - I do appreciate and understand how special this is, heartfelt thanks for sharing and looking forward to more from you
Hi Gabriela,
Thanks for your words of appreciation.
This is a very fast moving fellow, so as you rightly guessed, no opportunity to really achieve ideal settings, but i guess i did good considering the whole scenario.
Thanks again
Regards
Abhijit
Black buck
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I guess this leap was a bit of a surprise for you, so no time to change settings?
