Stenbok with repost

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16 replies

Posted by Tim Munsey on September 13, 2007 at 2:56 AM

The prettiest thing with four legs on earth I reckon.

Cheers

Tim
D2X,300mm, 1/350th at F/5.6

Posted by Philip Kirkham on September 13, 2007 at 4:23 AM

I agree, and a wonderful capture of it too!
Best wishes
Phil

Posted by Andy Astbury on September 13, 2007 at 4:45 AM

Tim - I always felt that title fell to a Roe Doe - well, I think slightly differently now - nice one

Rimmel and Max Factor would kill for the secret of those eyelashes

One thing I've got to say though - all these Africa images so far look a bit 'thin' colour-wise on my monitor (yes it is cal'd

Posted by Paul Thomas on September 13, 2007 at 5:12 AM

That's a really nice animal. Ah factor 10 I'd say

It's nice to see some of the less well-know African species too.

Paul

Posted by Tim Munsey on September 13, 2007 at 6:07 AM

Is this better Andy?

Posted by Andy Astbury on September 13, 2007 at 7:02 AM

A bit - I've had a VERY QUICK play with it in CS3 but it's still not right

Looking back thru your pre-Africa posts your images look perfect matey - so I beg the real STUPID question - have you actually calibrated this laptop monitor Tim

Don't shout at me if you have - only the blackest part of the right eyeball that I could find on your jpeg has quite a lot of green and blue in it.

But maybe it's just me - still a cracking image

Posted by Tim Munsey on September 13, 2007 at 7:07 AM

Well I have with the software it comes with, but I don't possess a proper gizmo. From what I'm seeing it must be fairly subtle, it is quite a light coated antelope and the sun was low.

Thanks for trying.

Tim

Posted by Paul Hillion on September 13, 2007 at 7:29 AM

What a beautiful looking creature, and a cracking shot to boot

Of the reposts Andy's has the slight edge.

Posted by John Varley on September 13, 2007 at 8:20 AM

Hi Tim - mega cute time is it! Looks pretty good(but with an overall yellowish caste) on my as you know crappy work monitor, but it looks wonderful on my Macbook, there is a delicacy of palette which I find really pleasing. Not tried it on the Cinema. J

Posted by John Chapman on September 13, 2007 at 9:25 AM

Hi tim nice capture

John
Aberdeen

Posted by David Kjaer on September 13, 2007 at 12:24 PM

Hi Tim

Beautiful and I would say your first post is fine - very natural!

David

Posted by Graeme Lee on September 13, 2007 at 5:10 PM

Tim, I know the african light can sometimes make images look a bit washed out, so it must be quite hard work to process these to appeal to most. On my crappy work monitor, I thought Andy's efforts looked the best out of the 3, but on my crappy home monitor, they all look fine.

Superb image of quite a rarely seen buck. I have a special affinity for African wildlife so keep 'em coming

Posted by Alan Bryant on September 14, 2007 at 2:33 PM

Ahhhhh bless!

Top shot

Posted by Rob Ashton on September 16, 2007 at 4:20 PM

Well, speaking from the experience of seeing many of these in the wild, I'd say that the colours and saturation are spot on. The only slight nit is that it is a Steenbok (missed an e in the title)

Rob

Posted by Paul Ashton on September 19, 2007 at 3:02 PM

A beautiful image. Just right IMHO

Posted by Elliott Neep on September 20, 2007 at 5:21 AM

Hi Tim. A great portrait of a beautiful animal. Seems a shame to see it on the tooth pick of a big cat! The colour cast is very, very subtle - don't worry about it. I've had issues with some of my images shot in Africa with low/dull light. I think this looks perfectly good to me. The first post just needed a bit more punch and contrast. One thing I did notice (as with India) is that the light has a high proportion of magenta and maybe cameras compensate by adding green hue?

for a fine portrait

Posted by Paula Graham on September 26, 2007 at 4:18 PM

I would give anything for eyelashes like that!
What a beautiful creature.
lovely shot.