The young one

Gallery: WildlifePosted April 13, 2012355 views13 comments

From photo safari in 2010 in Greater Kruger Park, Balule natural reserve. There were a family of warthogs, coming into the camp to graze nice green grass in the camp. They allowed us to come quite close. I took this shot in afternoon on cloudy day, so conversion to b&w was best to hide the pale colors.
What i like in this photo is such narrow DOF and great mustaches of this youngster.
Nikon D700, AFS 500mm f/4,0 lens at f/4,0 and 1/1000s and ISO 640.

Regards, Gorazd

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 13, 2012 at 8:54 PM

Looks fine in B&W, although I'm always curious about the colour version.
Love this youngster's face and mustache and overall "fuzziness."
Really nice detail, especially evident in the larger version.
The dark edges might be better lightened up - not sure.
Nice image!

Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on April 15, 2012 at 8:48 AM

Hey Gorazd,

I find this shot quite interesting. I might be wrong on this, but the vignette looks like it might be natural - at least it looks somewhat natural (which to me is a good thing). Love those almost white whiskers. On my monitor the larger version looks just a tad over-sharpened. And...given the direction of the warthog's head/gaze, I'm thinking a very slight off-centre placement of the subject - with it shifted slightly to the right - might strengthen the composition a bit. But obviously an "eye of the beholder" thing...

Cheers...

Brad

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Comment posted by Carl Battreall on April 15, 2012 at 4:54 PM

What a great character!

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Comment posted by Jenaya Launstein on April 15, 2012 at 5:16 PM

Really nice image! Great pose, and I like the mustache on him too

. Although I do like your comp, I think I agree with Brad about setting him more to the right.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on April 15, 2012 at 6:25 PM

Great look. I would soften the vignette a bit.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on April 17, 2012 at 1:36 AM

Gorgeous black and white wildlife image Gorazd. It just WORKS.

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Comment posted by Gorazd Golob on April 17, 2012 at 2:18 AM

Thank you. Vignette is natural and a litlle software ( maybe unnecesarry ). Color version is a too " plane ". Light was bad, so conversion saved the photo.
Best regards, Gorazd

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Comment posted by Carol Hyman on April 18, 2012 at 12:17 PM

Beautiful detail and a very fine conversion, Gorazd.

Carol

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 18, 2012 at 3:07 PM

Congrats on a nice WP!
Sandy

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Comment posted by Rick Diffley on April 18, 2012 at 5:24 PM

This a terrific B&W! Congrads on being selected for the WP!

Registered on April 8, 2012, 52 Posts, 279 Comments

Comment posted by Gorazd Golob on April 18, 2012 at 5:41 PM

Thank you very much. I am very happy that you like b&w wildlife.
Regards, Gorazd.

Registered on December 28, 2010, 23 Posts, 53 Comments

Comment posted by denise ippolito on April 18, 2012 at 10:26 PM

Awesome!

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Comment posted by Andrius Pašukonis on April 29, 2012 at 11:53 AM

Great BW! I absolutely love the mustache!

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