Hippopotamus

[Jonathan Ashton]

Taken from the car in the Shingwedzi Region of Kruger Park
Canon 1DX Canon 500mm f4 L IS II + 1.4TC III
ISO 2000. 1/2000 sec f8
ACR + PSCC

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Jon, a very endearing image and I'm sure there will be cry's of... AHHHH...

Nice and sharp, with good detail where it matters. Personally I think you could loose some off the FG??? It might be the laptop, but the images has the 'appearance' of being a bit 'thin' but as I said, it might be the laptop.

TFS
Steve

[Basil Dardagan]

Preciously cute and a great result in what looks like dull lighting. Perhaps a tighter crop would place more emphasize on the beautiful subjects and less on the challenging lighting conditions

[Gabriela Plesea]

Aaaaahhhhh Too sweet! Love the way the little one is tucked next to mom... So safe, and such a content look on its face.

Indeed lovely capture Jon. Super sharp and good choice of DoF. Agree with above comments from Steve and Basil but I do realise the lighting conditions were less than favourable. Maybe a tweak here and there would help bring more prominence to the subjects.

Having said the above, I would like to inform you that I will be camping at Shingwedzi in a few days' time - so I will go look for mommy hippo and baby hippo and give them your regards
Thank you very much for sharing, it gave me great pleasure to view this tonight. Chat soon, hope you have a wonderful rest of the week

Kind regards,

[John Mack]

Nice you caught the little one. Both have a nice pose on them. The details look good. Like all the water.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Jon - Definitely a cute factor and we don't often see baby hippo images posted. I agree about some from the bottom but would also take some off the rhs to get rid of the parts of leaves coming in on the edge.

TFS,
Rachel

[haseeb badar]

HI Jonatahn -- A lovely moment , very nice timing to get the capture. I agree regarding less FG and also slightly coming in from rhs to eliminate those leaves on the edge as mentioned above. rest looks fine to me. nicely done.

TFS !

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I am not surprised you weren't keen on it - I wasn't, I posted the wrong image (old age creeps up on us all), this is the one I should have posted:

[Steve Kaluski]

Certainly better Jon, although perhaps somewhere between the two in terms of 'Tone', but again, hard to say on the laptop.

[haseeb badar]

RP works far better , agree with Steve regarding the tones, somewhere between your OP and RP , but framing is very nice here . TFS !