Hi everyone, I have just returned from leading a 3 week tour to the Pantanal and Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil with NPN member May Haga and 5 other participants. It was a very rich trip for photography of mammals as well as birds. We photographed Jaguars on 5 different days. This is how we often found them earlier in the day before they started hunting, resting by the riverbank partially obscured. I have plenty of clean shots of them but I liked the side on pose here. The decision of how to crop wasn't easy, if I cropped more closely to get rid of all of the out of focus vegetation it felt "cut off" but if I included the whole body the remaining vegetation was more distracting so this is what I settled on.
Canon 5D3 500F4 1/320 F4, iso 1600, taken handheld from boat
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9 commentsI like the open mouth pose you caught this jaguar in. Nice detail and color. Thanks for sharing.
Nate,
"pesky" grass strikes again, not that t is real problem, great to hear you had so mamy sightings. Hope you can share some more
The wide mouthed profile is exceptional, a real attention grabber. It is too bad you had to deal with those couple of near vines on the left. My mental images of jaguars would have colored him more warmly and I would be thinking of adding selective saturation/warmth, but then again I have never seen one in wild and I am sure you want to be true to the experience.
Thanks Lon, it was pretty flat lighting when I took this, here it is with the saturation ramped up.
To my eye...strong improvement!
Sounds like a good trip.
Nice POV here, pity about the foliage but it is the jungle, after all :)
Nate: an excellent shot even with the oof vegetation. The yawn and being able to see those teeth are what makes the photo. Richard
Hello Nate
Strong powerful image in forest setting , prefer the repost, Great to see here and amazing to see up close! Is this much of a crop ?
Is this taken from a boat ?
Bill
Thanks everyone. Bill all of these Jaguar shots are taken from a boat. This is cropped about 50%, I found that when the Jaguars were moving around, 500mm was often too much lens, 300 was about right for that.