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    Nate Chappell
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    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.

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    Lovely crossed necks, and profiles. Cab feel the Etosha dust on their coats.

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    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.

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    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. :)

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    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.

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    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?

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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.

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    Lovely image Nate...great symmetry in the crossed necks!

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    Really well done shot. Simple, clean (well the foliage isn't much) and clear.

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