Taken on the beach at Gold Harbor, South Georgia Island. The light was soft and this sleeping elephant seal gave me a chance to study the skin on its nose. I think I should have raised the ISO and gone to f/9 or f/10.
1D-IV, 70-200 f/2.8 at 182mm, ISO 400, 1/160 at f/6.3 in aperture priority, handheld while lying on the sand.







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, but that is just my take, others I hope will chime in too and post their thoughts & views. In addition I think it looks just a little washed out/flat in both tone and depth. I would suggest you can either go back and adjust in RAW which will give you a greater/better result, or tweaking as I did with Levels, Curves and a couple of Channel layer adjustments, but it does hammer the pixels.


