North American River Otter

[Joseph Przybyla]

Here is another from my time spent with this otter. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1600 F/8 Matrix Metering +1/3 EV ISO 800 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Steve Kaluski]

Nice one Joe, I might again just loose a bit more off the FG.

TFS
Steve

[haseeb badar]

Hi Joseph -- +1 with the FG , processing looks fine in this one , just as per your RP from the previous post.

TFS !

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Joe - Another nice one. I do find the bright fg competing for attention so would consider taming it a bit and also going more pano. Interesting to see the rear paws.

TFS,
Rachel

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Joe what a cool character this Otter .
Love the pose and the low POV you achieved . Well handled shadows and great that you have that much detail extracted , not that easy under the light conditions .
Just think the 1/4 tones up the the HL are a tad to bright , have you blown the HL ? in capture .
If not ,great than you should have some tone to get the HL darker .

Nice work and show more if you have , as otters are not shown very often here .

TFS Andreas

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Lovely shot with fine details, I would bring the highlights down, I think this would help the foreground and the grass. I would also think about lessening the lower foreground, becasue it is naturally rather bright.