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Sid Garige
12-31-2009, 11:53 PM
Just returned back from my Cody and Jackson Hole trip with Al and Fabs. Thanks to Al and Fabs for their wonderful company and many local photographers who provided me with excellent info on locations. A special thanks to a local rancher on North Fork road who allowed me to photograph mule deer on his property. It was a wonderful trip and I was able to cover red fox, big horn sheep, mule deer, elk and moose.

Here is one of the images from National Elk Refuge.

Happy new year to all and may the light be with you in 2010.

D300, 80-200mm, F8 1/400

http://luminepixels.com/tmp/jacksonhole-116.jpg
Harshad Barve
01-01-2010, 12:04 AM
wonderful action shot Sid , love the way they locked horns and image has painting feel
Have you done any special PP :confused:
TFS & HNY 2010
Sid Garige
01-01-2010, 12:21 AM
Have you done any special PP :confused:
TFS & HNY 2010

Levels and S/H adjustments only.
Harshad Barve
01-01-2010, 12:33 AM
Levels and S/H adjustments only.

Thanks Sid
Ken Watkins
01-01-2010, 04:25 AM
What sets this apart is the BG, it looks like a painting, magical!
Are the subjects a little too light, or are the flanks normally this colour, I only ask because I have never seen one.
Arthur Morris
01-01-2010, 01:48 PM
What, no birds??? A loverly environmental portrait. Needs a bit of CW rotation as measured by the frame of the monitor :) I'd lose the black spec in front of the trees near the frame edge.

What focal length were you at?
Sid Garige
01-01-2010, 03:31 PM
What sets this apart is the BG, it looks like a painting, magical!
Are the subjects a little too light, or are the flanks normally this colour, I only ask because I have never seen one.

Ken,

That is the natural color.

Thanks
Sid
Sid Garige
01-01-2010, 03:39 PM
What, no birds??? A loverly environmental portrait. Needs a bit of CW rotation as measured by the frame of the monitor :) I'd lose the black spec in front of the trees near the frame edge.

What focal length were you at?

Artie,

Birds were very skittish there. No luck with raptors.

You are right on that bit of CW rotation.

Shot at 200mm with 60% of full frame crop.
David Fletcher
01-01-2010, 03:49 PM
Lovely presentation Sid. Love your placement and the use of habitat. Adds so much more. Best for 2010.
peter delaney
01-04-2010, 01:26 PM
lovely image Sid... I really love the landscape in the BG.

peter