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Gallery: WildlifePosted February 1, 2010121 views2 comments

Male of Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) were only training, but they do not preserve themselves anyway. They were part of herd of 20 but the dominant was a huger and more noble one.

Chobe Nat.l park -Botswana

Techs: Nikon D2Xs - 70-300 @135 - f/8 - 1/80 - +0,67ev - iso 200, metering pattern.

sum of three different PPs layers.

c& c very appreciated

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2 comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on February 2, 2010 at 9:41 AM

HI Luca,

Tricky lighting under which to capture a bit of action, but overall I think you've done a good job with the post-processing. While I like the rim lighting on the subjects, I do wish that there was a little more light in the region of the heads (where my eye, and I suspect many others, will drift towards).

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on February 2, 2010 at 12:35 PM

Hi Luca, that place looks familiar to me, must be the along the Chobe river

I agree with Brad that you handled a difficult lighting situation very well in capturing and processing. More BG separation would have been nice, but this bushy environment is typical Kudu habitat and it is always a challenge to photograph Kudu in that respect.

Registered on February 24, 2006, 504 Posts, 7203 Comments