Israeli Ibex

Gallery: WildlifePosted January 28, 2012160 views4 comments

This is another Israeli ibex from southern Israel. This particular ram was photographed on the edge of the Ramon Crater in the Negev desert, which can be seen in the background. Comments and critiques welcome.

Tech Data

Canon 40D
Canon 100-400 IS Lens
Aperture: f7.1
Shutter Speed 1/200 s
ISO: 100

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by David Bostedo on January 28, 2012 at 5:07 PM

Nice job on this one Jerry... Good handling of the side lighting and a neat location.

(As an aside, you might want to jump in and start commenting more yourself. You can learn a ton and it really helps you and the community!

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on January 28, 2012 at 6:01 PM

That is close ! Looks really handsome, and very cooperative

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on January 30, 2012 at 7:21 AM

Hi Jerry,

It looks like you had fairly contrasty lighting to deal with here with some real "hot spots" to deal with on the back of the Ibex and that you did quite a good job of handling it. I don't know the shooting situation and if changing your position would have been at all possible, but my first thought is that if this was shot from a lower level (i.e., not looking down on the animal so much) it would have likely strengthened the image.

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

Cheers...thanks for shari

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on January 30, 2012 at 1:48 PM

I really like the sense of cliff edge height this offers. I agree it would be even better at a lower perspective, closer to eye level of the subject.

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