Scimitar-Horned Oryx

[Ian McHenry]

Although I have enjoyed seeing the Oryx @ the local wildlife park which has successfully bred 70 young,this is the first time I have seen them in what appears a class in scimitar horn fencing!!!
Details: Heavy overcast sky,early afternoon.
Pentax K10D with Tamron 70-300 @ 300mm and Tamron 1.4 Teleconverter.
1600 ISO 1/1000 sec @ F5.6 Matrix metered.
Full frame image straightened.
Comments welcome.
Cheers: Ian Mc

[Ian McHenry]

Thanks Peter Beautiful job.
Your edit has greatly imroved colour.definition and general clean up.
Point taken about TC. Animals were at other side of a paddock and action all over inside 10seconds !!!
In retrospect think I should have reduced ISO to 800.
Cheers: Ian Mc

[Ian McHenry]

Cheers Peter
As a relative novice to PS Elements I'm finding more and more how much fine tuning alters image results.
Noise reduction (or not) and degree of usm are two biggies for me at the moment.
For most images with grass I usually end up using Noiseware in preference to Noise Ninja but NN often seems to give cleaner eyeshots.Ho hum !!!
Ian Mc

[Robert Amoruso]

Ian,

Peter's work onthe image enhances it well. Good job capturing the action. Some Artie always tells us bird photographers applies to all or us, "Zoom wider, pan faster!" I still do it as recently as yesterday with a Great Blue Heron.

Glad you had a good time with them.

[Ian McHenry]

Thanks Robert
As Peter says when TC on camera consider quick zoom adjustment.
Sounds good advice for sudden actions if time permits.
Cheers: Ian Mc