Gnu (Wildebeest) on the run

[Ken Watkins]

Taken in Khama Rhino Sanctuary, Botswana 20th March 2009.

EOS 1D MkIII

500mm F4 IS Hand-held

F5.6, 1/640, ISO 800

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Ken,
I am intrigued by the light. Is it natural?

You got a nice running pose. A lower angle to eliminate the tree line would have been terrific. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Ken Watkins]

The light is largely natural, inasmuch as it was running roughly sideways to the sunrise.
We saw it running towardsa waterhole from some distance and got there just in time to get three shots, so unfortunately no chance of changing position.

[Ken Watkins]

Thanks Peter that is a lot better, one day I will figure out all of the myriads of processing.

[D. Robert Franz]

Ken, great comp and action. I like the warmth of the light.. Maybe something between your version and Peters version would be about right.

[DanWalters]

Nice light and action. The vert comp works well here. I like the reworked version.

[Ken Watkins]

Peter,

Thanks for your explanation, I had never even heard of this before. But I regularly find amazing new functions that you would never know were there certainly not by reading the instruction books.

Here is another try which I think is about halfway.