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This falls more into Nature and Wildlife than travel, I think (despite the fact that it was taken while travelling). Brilliant shot, though… incredible detail.
I agree this should be in Nature and Wildlife. It is a beautiful shot with fantastic detail. Well done
Terry
The light IS gorgeous ! and to boot you’ve captured a really lovely shot
And those eyes … sooooooo sweet! Sorry , but they are :)
L
Oops! Yes, it should be in Wildlife. Still getting used the classifications.
And thanks for the nice comments!
This Hornbill was from the same trip.
Wildlife is by no means an area I’m even familiar with.. but this looks very good to my untrained eye… I particularly like the way your zoom lens throws the backgrounds so smoothly out of focus in this one.
L
Really good picture, looks like you got really close, even with that lens-
lovely detail in the plumage, and you had lovely light.
Its nicely framed around the shoulders too,
but even so,maybe not the prettiest bird I’ve ever seen.
Although another Hornbill might have put it in the glamour section.
Confusingly.j
gorgeous shots. I was in botswana this year too. Such a beautiful place. Did you get to the delta?
John Dunne wrote:
gorgeous shots. I was in botswana this year too. Such a beautiful place. Did you get to the delta?
Hi John,
Sort of. We stayed a night in Maun, but did’nt go to any of the private lodges that you’ve to fly into. We drove from there up via south gate, north gate, up to kasanne, camping in the national parks on the way.We also stayed in deception pan camp site in the Kalahari for 2 nights which was super.
Where did you get to? Any photo’s to share?
Merv.
Hi Merv,
If you don’t mind me asking, what lens were you using for these shot’s ? It’s super sharp!
Rodcunha wrote:
Hi Merv,
If you don’t mind me asking, what lens were you using for these shot’s ? It’s super sharp!
Thanks!
Both were taken with the same lens and camera.1dMII, ef 400 f/4.0 DO
however, the second one I had a 1.4 extender in there as well, so it ended up as a 560mm F/f.5 lens for the second shot.
Also, it’s an IS lens which helps, but I like to think I got the sharpness on the first one by stopping the car engine, and using a bean bag on the window (top one was shot leaning out the car window).
The second one was hand held, and therefore is not quite as sharp.I leave the camera to standard sharpening (and the 1dmII shoots quite soft images), and shoot in raw. I used bibble to convert to jpg, with it’s sharpening set to 100.
Then I used Arles to create the web page, and it re-sizes the large jpg’s to web sizes, and then sharpens them for the web. That last step helps so much! You have to re-sharpen after re-sizing to get them sharp, without going overboard and ruining the image.
Hope that helps!
Here is another one from that trip. This one is a crop from a larger image.
Wow you drove through yourself. Brave. not scared of humans in botswana but the animals would scare me on an unescorted trip
I loved Botswana more than any other country Ive been to in africa but I didnt think the wildlife was as abundant.
Here is a shot i took in the Delta. I was pleased to win first place in the anilmal portrait section of an international salon with this. Your beeater shot whips it though.
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=7252&highlight=leopard#7252
Hi John,
Thanks for the kind comments, but I think your Leopard is tops!
2 Irish couples went, and we hired 2 4×4 trucks. We met up with a SA couple that we’ve holidayed with before, so we were 4 well equiped 4×4 trucks. We did have hyena’s in our camp, one of which had a go at my camera case. We woke up one morning with an elephant in the camp. Overall, I would do it all again, just the same way.
The trucks we had meant you could sleep in them, making it way safer.
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