Steve Foss
01-12-2008, 07:35 PM
Hi all:
This was one from October. A completely unexpected encounter. The wolf (a female, I believe), saw me from more than 100 yards away and still kept coming. When she was about 15 yards away and obscured by brush, she stopped, and I took three steps to my left, crouched down and made this image. While my camera was writing to the card, she turned and sauntered off.
It was an incredible gift, and likely a better happening than it is a photograph, though it has been quite popular in a short amount of time.
I think I'll select the forelegs independently and use a little shadows/highlights on them next time.
The white specks on the face are seed pods. Even at 680 pixels across, I had to knock this down to 60 percent quality using "save for Web" in CS2 to meet forum image file guidelines, to I can't promise the quality will be as good as it should. This is a slight crop.
Canon 30D, 100-400L IS at 260mm, iso400, 1/100 at f7.1, handheld
This was one from October. A completely unexpected encounter. The wolf (a female, I believe), saw me from more than 100 yards away and still kept coming. When she was about 15 yards away and obscured by brush, she stopped, and I took three steps to my left, crouched down and made this image. While my camera was writing to the card, she turned and sauntered off.
It was an incredible gift, and likely a better happening than it is a photograph, though it has been quite popular in a short amount of time.
I think I'll select the forelegs independently and use a little shadows/highlights on them next time.
The white specks on the face are seed pods. Even at 680 pixels across, I had to knock this down to 60 percent quality using "save for Web" in CS2 to meet forum image file guidelines, to I can't promise the quality will be as good as it should. This is a slight crop.
Canon 30D, 100-400L IS at 260mm, iso400, 1/100 at f7.1, handheld