Young Giraffe

Gallery: WildlifePosted October 5, 201657 views2 comments

As we drove through the bush, Mum and a very young giraffe calf emerged crossing our left side, it's amazing just how much ground they can cover even at a strolling pace, only then to disappear back into the bush.

Thanks to those who viewed or posted a comment on the previous thread.

Steve

Subject: Cape Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa) young female with calf
Location: Botswana
Camera: Canon 1DX MKII
Lens: 200-400f/4 HH
Exposure: 1/2000s at f/9 ISO500 EV -0.33
Original format: Portrait, very slight crop
Processed via: LRCC & PSCC2015.5
Certainly the files from the MKII are so much cleaner and so very easy to process.

Comments

2 comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on October 8, 2016 at 8:38 PM

The youngster looks great and techs right on. I think here you would have better effect zooming in more tightly to feature the calf, or else have alternate lens setting to include the mother and more of the landscape.

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Comment posted by Stephen Kaluski on October 9, 2016 at 12:52 PM

Thanks Lon, I think in this case I would crop slightly tighter without any fear of 'pixel bashing'. I wanted to keep more focus on the calf rather than including Mom here.

Thanks for commenting.

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