Yellow Mongoose

[Gabriela Plesea]

Going back on memory lane once again, here is an image taken in the Kalahari in 2010. I did a lot of experimenting in those days, so when I look at those images now I often cannot understand the reasoning behind my camera settings:) Every now and then I got lucky and with some decent light the images did not turn out too bad, so here is one I quite like. If you are wondering what makes me share such old stuff, well... I thought I'd show you what amazing eyes those creatures have. I was so taken with those horizontal pupils at the time...

Nikon D300S (my first "proper" camera, LOL)
Nikon 300mm F2.8
1.4TC
Focal Length: 450mm
ISO 400
F7.1
1/500s (oops...)
Spot metering

Enjoy your evening friends, and happy processing PP work on this one was done in 2013, perhaps worth another look at the RAW one of those evenings. I already see a couple of things I can do to improve this - hair looks a bit coarse in places, I could open up the blacks a bit (around the eye), a slight colour cast on the white hairs behind ear)