by Max Waugh
Everyone's on alert in this image, which was taken in Kgalagadi in South Africa a few years back. Of course, the diminutive black-backed jackal poses very little threat to the springbok, and eventually it decided to sit down for a nap while the antelope went on grazing.
Because of the tight proximity of the subjects in the frame, a squarish crop may have worked alright to better balance them out, but I opted in this case to leave a bit more room ahead of the main subject.
Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 500mm f/4 IS + 1.4x
ISO 400
1/1250th
f/7.1
Max
Comments
6 commentsI knew this was from the Kgalagadi when I saw the thumbnail.
Love the juxtaposition and that amazing Kalahari light!
Hello Max, Very Cool Image capture.
Bill
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Nice one Max ! Specially like the blurred out springbok in the BG . . . .tones are nice too
<div id="myEventWatcherDiv" style="display:none;"> </div>I am a sucker for rim lighting. Nice. I also like the way the springbok is rendered, barely identifiable. Only tweak I can find is to possibly darken the bright bit of oof foreground just under the jackal's frong legs.
Thanks guys. Lon, I think it's some grass that was in front of my car. You're right that some selective darkening or burning may work to "bring it in line."
Max
Beautiful light... I love the sunlit edge around the jackal and the way you placed the springbok in the nice recognizable bokeh.
Grt, Ingrid.