Waterbuck

Gallery: WildlifePosted March 22, 2014154 views15 comments

Here's another buck from Africa. This one a Waterbuck photographed on our Chobe, Botswana extension from a specialized photography boat which has wimberley type triod heads fixed onto the boat. This is cropped to vertical, it was late afternoon, sweet, saturated light. The background is reddish dirt covered hills. The animal was on one of the many islands in the river, you can get quite close to a lot of animals and birds photographing from a boat there.

Canon 5D3 500F4 1/2000 F5.6, iso 800

Comments

15 comments

Comment posted by Ingrid Vekemans on March 22, 2014 at 4:05 PM

Nice light, Nate - good portrait - I like the fact that you didn't clone the flies out…they are part of the scene.

Grt, Ingrid.

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Comment posted by Jerry Austin on March 22, 2014 at 5:08 PM

The light is really great. The detail you captured is really impressive. Great portrait.

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Comment posted by Rick Cloran on March 22, 2014 at 7:06 PM

Super detail. You caught him in mid chew. Love the light and agree that leaving the gnats (or what ever they are) in maintains an important element in the story.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on March 23, 2014 at 2:19 AM

Great light n neat portrait, very nicely done!
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on March 23, 2014 at 4:48 AM

Nate,
Great capture of one of Africa's most photogenic antelopes.
Great to see the eyes with such detail

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Comment posted by William Bickle on March 23, 2014 at 9:23 AM

Hello Nate

Yes, Sweet light and you caught the mood just right with this moody muted capture!:)

Like the details and can see some flying insects too. Beautiful spiral head piece with detail, and a stunning clear background .

Cheers.......Thanks for sharing!

Bill

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on March 23, 2014 at 9:38 AM

Hi Nate,

Nice portrait - good call on going vertical on this one!

I always like when flies and other little "reminders" of the reality of the conditions that wildlife live within are picked up and retained in an image.

Looking forward to further posts from this trip...

Cheers...

Brad

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on March 23, 2014 at 11:48 AM

Wonderful, wonderful light, Nate.

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on March 23, 2014 at 11:57 AM

Great light and a good portrait. I love the details. Well done

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Comment posted by Balakumar Kaushik on March 23, 2014 at 2:47 PM

A fine portrait in beautiful warm light !

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Comment posted by Louis Pattis on March 23, 2014 at 4:48 PM

Beautiful waterbuck, the light is great and I love the bokeh.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on March 23, 2014 at 8:47 PM

Awesome Light

Pretty cool looking antelope too. Sweet close-up portrait Nate!!!

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on March 23, 2014 at 9:08 PM

Beautiful portrait Nate, the warm African lighting is hard to beat. Looks like he has quite a tear in his left ear. Looks like he was chewing his cud, the jaw is maligned slightly - just an observation, I'm kind of anal about trying to capture the jaw straight when I can. :roll eyes:

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Comment posted by Kory Lidstrom on March 25, 2014 at 11:43 PM

Great shot with nice light and great bokeh.

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Comment posted by Upjeet Singh on March 27, 2014 at 3:21 AM

The light is heavenly and a portrait is bang on. Amazing details in the larger picture

well done

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