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    A Red Letchwe leaping across one of the small channels at Duba Plains, Okavango Delta, Botswana.

    Played around with Photoshop CS6 new Blur tools on this image, loving some of the new features.


    • Camera NIKON D3
    • Focal Length 600mm
    • Shutter Speed 1/1600 sec
    • Aperture f/4
    • ISO/Film 1600

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    Hi Brendon,
    I like the action, light and detail of your image.
    Thanks for sharing and best wishes,
    Mark

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    Great action, IQ and light. It may be my work monitor but it does look awful bright green and might need a little desaturation.

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    Nice mid-air capture. The comp works very well. I agree on maybe desaturating the greens and/or yellows a tad.


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    Superbly timed and what a great angle towards you. Like the flying droplets coming off the back legs. Colors look okay to me, what I'd expect from the wet grassy areas I believe these guys live in.

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    Hi Brendon, as this was posted sometime back I think this is more 'a comparison' of what you have done to it, rather than a critique, as that has been done before.

    Therefore I won't add any thoughts, but will leave the link to the OP so others can see the changes.

    http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...eaping-Letchwe

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    I thought this looked familiar but something was different. Thanks for posting the OP, Steve.
    Wow, Brendon - the blur tools really did a good job here! Will have to check that out once I get my hands on CS6...
    The clarity and detail on the lechwe is also much better than the previous post. This is still a mighty fine frame!
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    Will have to check that out once I get my hands on CS6...
    Obviously Beta is available now, but I think the rumour was 6-8th May?
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    Thanks very much guys, and thanks steve indeed the intention was to show the use of the new blur tools in cs6, so thanks for posting the OP, i didnt think of that. Morkel, the beta is available at Adobe labs, thats what i am working off, some really cool new and improved tools for photographers and many more.

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    Like the improved sharpness of Letchwe on this one (over first one, Dec 2011).
    But have no preference as to which regarding foreground and other blurring. In fact, first one, rather like the sharp reeds/grass in foreground of first one. It does not interfer/intrude on the subject but gives some foreground framing.
    For me the great POV (3/4 frontal) of the subject, the light and its angle, the legs, the eye, make the image.
    Tom
    ps - maybe the total blurring around subject reminds me too much of too many bird images with same
    (ooh, but not BPN of course, other sites)
    Last edited by Tom Graham; 04-12-2012 at 09:44 PM. Reason: added ps

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    Ha ha, thanks very much Tom.

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    Saw this on 500px as well, wonderfully captured! Loved the light on its face

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    Brendon.

    Whatever way this may have been processed it is still a majestic image, and certainly one of the finest Lechwe images I have ever seen.

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