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The Great Migration
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The Great Migration

by Jagdeep Rajput

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 15, 2012215 views4 comments
It was truly a wonderful and humbling experience watching the great migration, but very difficult to translate into the picture.
Canon 50D; 70-200mm; ISO 100; 1/640 sec. at F 4.5
Thank you so much for your kind attention & views !
Jagdeep Rajput
PS. I'm so sorry, forgot to mention, these are Wildebeests.

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by John Tobias on February 15, 2012 at 8:39 PM
A somewhat different take on the migration photos usually seen. I like the image, gives you a better idea where the gnus came from and where they are going. To me there seems to be a slight magenta cast. Thanks for sharing,
Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments
Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on February 16, 2012 at 2:06 AM
What great drama ! The hardest things in these situations is to decide what to leave out. The cutoff on the right looks perfect but i am a little undecided on the left. The blue in the sky does look a little off colour and there seems to be dark horizontal bands on the top and bottom (vignetting ?).
Registered on October 25, 2009, 110 Posts, 835 Comments
Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 16, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Hi Jagdeep,

Yep, it can be challenging to do shots like this justice online - they definitely have more impact as big prints. I like how the two "lines" of animals (sorry, I can't ID them from this shot) converge into a single streaming mass - at some level it reminds me of ants doing the same thing! I also like where you positioned (vertically) both the main herd and the horizon in the frame - nice balance!

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad
Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments
Comment posted by Lon Sharp on February 17, 2012 at 6:55 PM
I feels more documentary, providing a sense of place and scale, than you usual, more intimate work. I like it as posted and would agree it is probably stronger the bigger it is printed.
Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments