Numbat

Sventekoz

I imagine not many of you would have seen or heard of a Numbat. It's the fauna emblem of my state (Western Australia), and is an endangered species. Luckily, the local zoo has quite a successful breeding program.

This was one of my first photos taken with the Nikon 18-200mm VR lens, and I had to use the Sport setting on the D80 to keep focus with this fast-moving little guy. It's also a bit over-sharpened (using the high-pass technique), but he (or she) stood out a lot better that way.

dbaker1221

something I've never seen before..thanks

jwear

your ps work did well --it does have good color and stand out

Sventekoz

Thanks for that guys.

BTW - all the post-processing was done in CaptureNX, which I find great for Nikon RAW files.

Harryb

Excellent capture What you may want to try is to apply the sharpening selectively using a layer mask. Check out this tute

PrescottPhotog

Sventekoz wrote:

I imagine not many of you would have seen or heard of a Numbat. It's the fauna emblem of my state (Western Australia), and is an endangered species.

New critter for me too.. Thanks for sharing !!

Sventekoz

Harryb wrote:

Excellent capture What you may want to try is to apply the sharpening selectively using a layer mask. Check out this tute

Thanks for the link - I'll give it a try!

Maestro

Neat looking guy. Thanks for sharing.