Nile Crocodile

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 22, 201143 views2 comments

Chobe Ntl Park offers a wide variety of species and its river is full of crocs. Animals who comes to drink are alway with te surveillance mode switched on.

Specie: Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

techs: Nikon D2Xs + nikkor 300 f/4 + TC 1.7 iso 100, 1/160 f6.7.
P.P.: cut for web at about 60% of the FF; lights + sharpening + contrast + selective adjustments in PS CS3.

C&C always welcome and appreciated.

Luca

Comments

2 comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 23, 2011 at 9:01 AM

Hi Luca,

Well, I'm glad YOU had your surveillance mode switched on. I like the vertical positioning of the croc in the frame, but have to say I'm not thrilled about how (and where) the frame cuts the body off. It IS a major challenge to photograph such a long animal with a camera that shoots images in a 3:2 aspect ratio...is the entire croc in the original (uncropped) version of the shot? If so, I'm wondering (without knowing) if going to a more pano crop (that includes the whole crop but less background) might be interesting?? Just a thought...

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments

Comment posted by richard remington on March 5, 2011 at 8:27 AM

Brad,

The shot is interesting but I would like to see the entire body instead of just the front half. It is difficult to shoot long animals and I assume the reason you lost the back half is that your focus point was middle instead of far left?

Rick

Registered on March 12, 2010, 105 Posts, 368 Comments