Foraging Coyote Parting Glance

[Steve Canuel]

40D, 400DO, f6.3, 1/200s, ISO 800.

[John Blumenkamp]

Nice capture Steve... I really like the full head turn back and the stong eye contact. If it were mine I might play with cropping some off the right and see how it looks with the coyote even further to the right in the frame. A nice one as is... I love how the coyote is set against all that grass.

[Robert Amoruso]

Steve,

Agree that the setting makes the image. The DOF on the coyote is just right with critical sharpness on the face and good sharpness throughout. A real knock-out image.

[D. Robert Franz]

Love the over the back glance here. Image looks like a painting.. I like it...

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Very lovely capture and I agree it would make a beautiful painting. Fine work Steve !!!

[denise ippolito]

Steve, Very nice pose and I really like the colors of the grass, nice DOF, a lovely shot!

[Steve Maxson]

Hi Steve. I like all the technical aspects of this image and I like John's suggestion about cropping a bit from the right (a maybe a little off the bottom). I'm not as fond of the pose as those above (I'm often in the minority here :) ). I would prefer that the coyote's rear quarters were angled a little more toward the right - it's that different strokes thing, you know.

[Alfred Forns]

I like the pose as presented since it has such a strong eye contact Sort of make its for me. I do see Steve's point of a little rear end movement. Fine image either way you look at it !!! Big Congrats !!!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Steve,
I like this image. The first thing I notice is the patch of green grass. You got him in the right place. I like the sharpness. The dof is adequate.

I agree with John regarding taking off a bit from the right. I see Steve's point about the angled view to avoid the posterior portion. That would also be relevant for the buck images, where the back is a big white patch. I normally get this looking back images when I am trekking and following a Jackal. I would ofcourse like it more, if the coyote would be moving side ways and looks back, giving you a body parallel to your image plane. In the present image, the looking back pose works.

[Steve Canuel]

Thanks to all for the comments and suggestions. I too would've liked a slightly more profiled pose for this shot, and I did get a couple of side shots of this coyote, but none were in the green patch of grass. I also experimented with putting him closer to the right edge of the frame but chose this crop because of the sideways teardrop shape of the green grass. I preferred the rounded teardrop shape to the sharper triangle that a closer crop created.

[John Ippolito]

Boy, this is a very pleasing image to look at. The colors, and textures in the grass work beautifully with the look back. Very nice.