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This is my first foray into wildlife photography  Blue-Footed Booby  Sally Lightfoot Crab
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I am in Kenya for 6 weeks and had my first chance really shooting wildlife. Was wondering what I could do to improve my shots for my next time I get to do a game drive in about 2 weeks. I tried to get a mix of environmental shots and closer in portraiture but am totally out of my depth on how to improve my shots.     
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Jul 29, 2021 16:58
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Thanks for all the great pointers totally agree the lighting was an absolute mess for most of them. I definitely struggled some with framing/getting that right mix of environment and animals.
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Jul 29, 2021 19:12
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xzzy posted:The one of the cheetah jumping down the tree is epic. Nothing you can do about harsh noon light but the light on the cat is perfect and you caught some good action. The bushes are kind of a mess, but again, noon light. I'd print and hang it with no second thoughts. I hate that bush with a burning passion it’s so ugly and out of place but absolutely nothing I could do and tried to edit it in a million ways to get it to look decent to no avail. I also felt super limited because I had the sigma 150-600mm on there and ideally wanted to get the top of the tree in the frame but didn’t want to miss him jumping down while switching lenses. I do have a black and white conversion of him jumping out of the tree though (I am totally poo poo at B&W conversion). 
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Jul 29, 2021 19:16
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Got a few shots yesterday that I think work decently, I got much better lighting in the morning which helped out a ton. On both of these I am still struggling to get the horizon level because the foreground and background was all sort of wonky. Additionally the first one I am not sure how I like the color grading especially the mountains in the back. 
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Aug 6, 2021 15:01
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There was some really strong afternoon light and I feel like it matched the scene pretty well but I think y’all are right that the saturation/vibrancy is a touch much. I will try and dial it back some and try and balance it a little better. Tsavo East where it was shot was tough because it had deep red dirt (and red elephants) contrasting with golden fields and the haze and change in grass and vegetation in the hills always came out blueish tinged balancing that has been a real struggle for me. Edit: looked back at my adjustments on Lightroom and I didn’t touch the vibrancy/saturation but I did use dehaze which definitely brought up those golds and blues especially in the fields/mountains. Swarmin Swedes fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 18:47
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Big cats in the rain  
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Aug 17, 2021 20:36
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