Christof Ruch
01-23-2008, 05:55 PM
Ups, my first non-bird. Makes me nervous :-)
There is a wonderful animal park within the German Bavarian Forest national park, offering great unobstructed photo opportunities on domestic wildlife, with the park being nicely embedded into the natural terrain. And ok, as the number of free-living wolves in Germany is estimated at about 30, I was totally happy to portrait this captive guy.
The photo suffers from AF-composition (central sensor), but I do like the soft light and the eye contact.
Christof
Technical info:
D70 with Tokina 300/f4 on tripod, center-weighted AP mode with -0.7EV selecting f/4 resulting in 1/200s on ISO 800. Ok, and the -0.7 EV had to be put back in when developing RAW in NC 4, plus a little dodge on his left eye and some edge-masked sharpening in CS3.
There is a wonderful animal park within the German Bavarian Forest national park, offering great unobstructed photo opportunities on domestic wildlife, with the park being nicely embedded into the natural terrain. And ok, as the number of free-living wolves in Germany is estimated at about 30, I was totally happy to portrait this captive guy.
The photo suffers from AF-composition (central sensor), but I do like the soft light and the eye contact.
Christof
Technical info:
D70 with Tokina 300/f4 on tripod, center-weighted AP mode with -0.7EV selecting f/4 resulting in 1/200s on ISO 800. Ok, and the -0.7 EV had to be put back in when developing RAW in NC 4, plus a little dodge on his left eye and some edge-masked sharpening in CS3.