Black rhino study

[Hilary Hann]

This is the same rhino cow I posted earlier with her 2 calves. Photo taken just before she decided to charge us. Early morning.
7D; 100-400 @ 310; 1600ISO; 1/640; f11

[Ken Watkins]

Hilary,

Remarkably rich colours here, and what a horn.

IMHO your best yet, glad to did not do a conversion

I might consider cloning or patching out the "pesky" grass below chin.

[Hilary Hann]

Thank you Ken. I thought I'd see what others thought about the stick before removing it.

[Harshad Barve]

You gotta love that horn , excellent image
TFS

[noelle zaleski]

I agree with harshad, gotta love that horn! This is a wonderful image :)

[Steve Kaluski]

Very nice Hilary, the colour or a conversion would work either way.

Would apply a hint of shadow/highlight just to the rhino to open some of the detail up. You have some guidelines to play with I think.

Seems you are enjoying things.

TFS
Steve

[Todd Frost]

Sweet colors with good detail Hilary. Comp looks good. Love the horn! I agree that this would lend itself well to a b/w or toned conversion as an additional look. Well done.
TFS
Todd

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Harshad, Noelle, Steve and Todd ... will do a little more with her and see where it takes me.

[Morkel Erasmus]

sweet light, details and IQ here...what a horn!
agree with Steve on opening the detail a bit

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Morkel, will work on it tomorrow.

[Marc Mol]

The lighting, colour and detail, not to mention the eye nice and clear are all first class Hilary.
TFS

[Dumay de Boulle]

Lovely IQ and fantastic light Hilary...I love the detail in the eye....These guys are known to be temperamental... walked into three of them this morning on a bush walk, always gets the heart pounding. The trick is to make sure they dont see you...They only know two responses...Run or charge and most of the time its the latter.

[Hilary Hann]

Thanks Marc and Dumay. Being charged by 3 black rhino would be quite something to photograph! :eek:

[Robert Amoruso]

Good comments above so not much too add Hilary. I love the horn and would clone the grass under chin.

[Hilary Hann]

Thank you Robert