A hippo poking its head above the water for a quick breath at the San Diego Zoo. Circular polarizer used to reduce glare. Minimal processing: crop, levels, USM, resize.
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interesting shot, and nice framing. This is a good human interes shot, and is enjoyable, but perhaps doesn't fill me with a mood. Maybe i want more setting, perhaps this shot would be more intersting with a wide expanse of water, with the little hippo head sticking out. just a thought. I think perhaps right now i have a problem with the cropping. it is cropped JUST on the edge of the water large water ripple. This makes for a tense uneasy image. It is a decent image but i just can't figure out why it doesn't have impact for me. Maybe there isn't enough variety in colors.. everything is a dull green... you could try playing with saturation, but i am not sure it would help... i am not sure what more to say. Good us of rule of thirds in any case.
Hippos and water, together forever without a doubt. I'm guessing this is a zoo shot so you really didn't have a lot of control over the set up. THe lighting and focus is wonderful and the overall cropping is also well done but not being able to see the front of the face is a bit off putting to me. At first I didn't like this shot overall because it seemed a bit dark to me but upon a second look I see that really works well for this shot. Started with a 5, moving to an 8
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