Monochrome Migration

Gallery: WildlifePosted May 10, 2016138 views6 comments

This won't be everyone's cup-o-tea...
We had an intense and dramatic river crossing mere minutes from our camp after sunset in the Mara Triangle last year.
ISO was through the roof, so slow shutter experiments were at the order of the day.

Your thoughts always welcome!

Techs:
Nikon D3s
Nikkor 70-200mm f2.8 VR-II @ 90mm
f2.8 | 1/25 SS | ISO-4500

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on May 12, 2016 at 12:27 AM

An action-packed & dramatic frame with lot of mood!
IMHO you could go bit wider here. Will prefer to have some more room at the top & on LHS, further the front most wildebeest shouldn't be cut, if there is no room it can be cloned out.
Would have loved to see bigger post.
Jagdeep Rajput devil

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Comment posted by Richard Wong on May 12, 2016 at 4:09 PM

Pretty epic stuff Morkel!

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on May 13, 2016 at 3:31 PM

I've been enjoying these, Morkel. Not quite as effective as your double page spread shot, but I do like the diagonal line leading out of the frame.

Max

Registered on September 26, 2008, 428 Posts, 2329 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on May 14, 2016 at 3:43 PM

Hi Morkel,

Good drama here...lots to look at here! I like the mood and there's some great contrast (on a variety of levels) in this shot. Always nice to see the colour version when assessing the decision to go B&W, but in an absolute sense this one works well in B&W. At least on the sizes presented here I don't think the ISO hurt you too much.

Nicely done...

Cheers...

Brad

Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments

Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on May 15, 2016 at 6:43 AM

Thanks for the comments folks.
I have shots at slightly wider was well, will look at those too.

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Comment posted by Mario Moreno on May 22, 2016 at 3:19 PM

Very atmospheric Morkel with a great composition and perfect conversion. devil

I'm ok with the slow shutter speed. In fact it might add to the overall result <div> </div> <div id="myEventWatcherDiv" style="display:none;"> </div>

Registered on January 24, 2012, 163 Posts, 369 Comments