I'm by no means new (much longer than my membership) but let me reintroduce myself as I think the last photo I posted was in 2008 (taken in 2008 anyway)! I got a little bit serious (just a bit) about photography in 2006 and I shoot with Sony and Minolta gear (I'm stubborn!). I am an occasionally serious amateur but I love it and anything you say to make me better at it will be much appreciated, even if it breaks my heart for a few minutes.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Laikipia, Kenya Around 8,.30 am on 3 October 2011.
Limiting factors:
Misty morning (low light and perhaps background?); bouncy hyenas bounding in and out of grass taller then they were; no way to get lower (I was quite low but they are very short); nerves (who knows when I'll get to see eight (!) hyena pups playing around a den in decent light again). If I'd noticed the shutter speed was down to 1/640 I might have changed to f/5 (but I think I got away with it!).
Excuses
None except lack of ability and imagination. I was using a basic consumer-level camera by choice because I like this particular one. Lens is a Minolta G designed for pros, so although it's not latest generation, it's very good (if only Sony made something as good at that length). Of course it has its own characteristics, though.
PP
Local sharpening and contrast adjustments on the hyena pups. A little NR on the background from the front pup's fore-knee up (just to zap any noise - the background looked like this out of camera); due to the mist it came out as quite a low contrast shot. WB is set at around 4700. A little crop above, below and left. Nothing really.
Not sure about.... enough contrast even though there's quite a bit added; the background; the colours (I'm almost never sure about that)
Sony A580 f/6.3 1/640 ISO 800
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I did consider a slightly tighter crop, but feel as present it works well, plus the raised legs also gives a nice 'fleeing' feel to.



