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    Hi Guys, This is I believe a Western Rock Wallaby. It was photographed in the grounds of Cable Beach resort in Broome, Western Australia. I found this surprising because these are very timid animals and difficult to approach in the wild and the resort is usually very busy and full of tourists wanting to approach cuties like this one. Maybe the easy feeding made up for the unwanted attention. They are much less common in the wild than kangaroos. This wallaby was also difficult to get close to, but slow movements and a bit of belly crawling was required for this shot. Shot details; 1D4, 500F4 + 1.4 TC. ISO 800, 1/320 @ 5.6. AP mode @ +0.3 ev. Hand held lying on the ground.. This is pretty much full frame.. DON

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    Hi Don,

    lovely image of the Roo. I would add a saturation layer mask and pull the blue back. Check it out You will loose the blue in the roo's face and body white parts and in the BG. That looks much better. Well, to me it does. You also can only "paint" out the blue in the roo's body! On the left arm I would burn down a bit the highlights, that those are not to dominant in the roo's body. The comp works for me.

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    PS when you sneak on roos try to do a zig zag path, maybe that helps a bit more to get closer. Going straight, they do figure out that you are after them

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    Hi Don -Nice dappled light, low pov and head on pose. I agree with Anette about dropping the blues and might also drop the magenta to a lesser extent. Here's a rp dropping the blues -30, the magenta -10 and I also did a levels adjustment bringing in the right slider to 246. It's a subtle change. WDYT?

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    Hi Don, great to see the girls have taken a lead on this and feedback is good. Be an intense day of compressed shooting for me in a very short space of time so I'm glad they have picked up the main essence up, as my eyes are quite tired now.

    The only two things I might also suggest is opening up the face to bring a bit more detail through and clone out some marks in the FG and to the right in the BKG. You may also wish to add some mid tone to the body, but that is just optional. Techs look good and the low profile angle worked, it's the way to go.

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    Nice low angle indeed, Don. Tricky decision with animals that have tails like this...I think you composed it well so the "cut off" tail isn't as obvious.
    Good suggestions above, won't do another repost
    Good to see some Oz wildlife coming through. Your post made me go and research a bit - amazed at how many species of Macropods there are!
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    Thanks for all the help guys..! BPN rocks...

    Will try your zig zag approach next time Anette... It makes sense. As you can see he is staring right at me and as I moved closer he would hop away a few steps. I moved closer again and he did the same. He was heading for a full shadow and there was not a lot of light anyway so I stopped. I think they call that 'the circle of fear' you cant enter.

    Regarding the colour, as soon as I posted it it thought 'hmmm maybe a magenta overload' but I was off to the hospital for a check up (nothing serious) and did not have time to repost. will do so tonight..

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    Rachel & Steve, Thanks very much for the repost, you are both 'on the money' with the colours.. I plan to look into Anette's saturation mask technique tonight when I get home.. Its something I have not played with in PS yet.. much to learn.

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    Hi Don,

    let me know how it works with the zig zag approach. Curious if that works with them as well. It certainly works with the deers over here and with birds
    Just play to be NOT interested into them

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    Thanks Again Anette. I had a play with PS using your suggestions, works well. I have never done that before, I usually play with the selective colour tool. I also used a bit of NR on the background which I liked and slightly blurred above the tail using the Gaussian blur. Unfortunately the forearm has a small patch that is burnt and does not respond to adjustment...thanks to all for the help DON

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    The zigzag approach is advisable no matter the species. It's how you approach big game in Africa on foot as well. Zigzag...and with a gun on hand
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    lolololol Morkel, and the tourists seeing you, think you are drunk
    Cheers on G&T or my beloved Savannah Dry

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    Hi Don, your RP looks good to me. For the burnt spot you can use the clone tool, if you wish to do so.
    And when you go zig zag, the animals do not see your red t-shirt, but they will see your black t-shirt

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