What should I have done to make this better?

antonyrelou

Hi all,

I only had a very short opportunity to snap this shot of a leopard and I am sure I could have done better...but I do love the ripples in the water:D (Taken on safari in my home land of South Africa) I would love your thoughts???

Taken with a Nikon D80, 70-300mm nikon lens.

I have a bunch more of other animals, let me know if this is the right place to post...

PeterD-2009

Hi Antony

I too am new on here. Beautiful shot - not sure whether I should feel jealous of you getting so close

Here goes. IMHO any image should put across what it is the photographer was aiming for. What was important should be brought out. In your case, you were interested in the ripples resulting from the leopard drinking. The leopard in that case would not be as important and therefore I would crop off at the leopard's neck and make the ripples more obviously important.

Whatever, I like the image as is.

antonyrelou

Excellent point ... I can try that cropping.

antonyrelou

What the heck - here are a bunch more.

Lets call this one "Hippo Snot"


And lets call this one "Angry Buff"



"Hide and Seek"?????




Sundown in Africa



Elephant Abstract


I'm watching you!


Just chilli'n in the pool




What's for lunch?

Ric Grupe

I really like the "Buff" pounding his way into the water!

PeterD-2009

A great series of shots. The one of the lion is my favourite. You really have captured that one well. It looks menacing (which of course it is) and that eyeball really gets to you.

dlplumer

Those first four shots are outstanding. Love em Keep em coming.

Oh, and welcome to Dgrin.

Dan

antonyrelou

Thanks for the compliments, everyone! It's a completely different story being so close to these guys in the wild, as compared to the zoo.... no fences for protection - in fact, that buff did not like us at all and started charging - hence the water spray. thank heavens for image stabilization!!
:jawdrop