Hi everyone, here's another image from Etosha National Park taken 2 years ago. This is full frame, there were a lot of giraffes at some of the waterholes near the east end of the park.
MkIII 500F4 1/1000 F13, iso 500 handheld out my car window.
Hi everyone, here's another image from Etosha National Park taken 2 years ago. This is full frame, there were a lot of giraffes at some of the waterholes near the east end of the park.
MkIII 500F4 1/1000 F13, iso 500 handheld out my car window.
Lovely crossed necks, and profiles. Cab feel the Etosha dust on their coats.
Nate, these guys are always inquisitive, and well done for getting the timing right to capture the X. I would maybe have centered them in the comp.
The X makes the image for me, Nate. I would second Stuart on centering the heads more in the comp - maybe add a little canvas on the right. :)
Well seen Nate and a central crop would work.
I would consider cloning or cropping out the small traces of foliage bottom left as well.
tfs
Austin
Hi Nate, 'nits' covered, but would also look at the colour balance too with a hint more USM. Not sure why you were shooting at f/13?
Steve
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Thanks for your comments, I'll redo the crop.
The reason I chose F13 was because I wanted to get all of the details of both animals in sharp focus, they were quite close to me, this is from memory but I would guess about 15 meters and they weren't in exactly the same focal plane. At that distance with a 500mm lens and that aperture you still have lens than 1 meter of depth of field. There was no penalty for using a small aperture as the background was clean.
Last edited by Nate Chappell; 03-09-2010 at 01:45 PM.
Lovely image Nate...great symmetry in the crossed necks!
Really well done shot. Simple, clean (well the foliage isn't much) and clear.