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    Hadn't seen any of these during this outing and was heading for a better spot to just enjoy what turned out to be a pretty nice mountaintop sunset when I spotted this one moving up the hillside. I think this may be one of those photos that the photog enjoys because of the moment/location but thought I'd post it anyway since I haven't posted one of these in awhile. Had some blown highlights in the sky above the mountain, don't think I properly addressed those. 5DMKII, 1-400L, f6.3, 1/200, ISO 1600, HH, cropped for comp.

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    Nice setting Steve, and I'm not sure how you could have addressed them without a graduated filter or something. Texture of the goat looks spot on and I love the colors surrounding it. Wish I could have had such a shot in the morning.

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    Hi Steve,

    I like your mountain goats very much. This one looks very nice. As you said already the sky needs a bit more adjustments. I also would brighten a bit more the animal to bring it more out. Just IMHO

    Have a great weekend

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    Lovely image - love the colour pallette. Might try to address the graininess which shouldn't be so pronounced with 5D3 at ISO 1600?
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    Thanks for the comments. Had both blown highlights and blocked shadows on this one, played with it to see what I could get from it. Will probably get binned as I have one that's got a better pose and may be easier to work with using a double processed file.

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    Hi Steve, good call on having the hill slightly above the subject and I like the framing. Agree with Ed about the noise, plus I would address what looks like CA (Chromatic Aberrations) colour fringing.

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    Had thought about mentioning the apparent CA but think it might be the light coming over the hill? However, if it looks like CA, people will think that's what it is, so perhaps best to address it.
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    I like the POV and light/time of day here. I think it can stand a bit of lightening of shadows and midtones, just "feels" underexposed to me? What do you think Steve C?

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    Sorry - missed that.
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    This shot was was taken at 7:45 PM and was a quick jump out of the car and snap a few frames shot. ALthough not moving quickly, it was steady progress and I wanted to grab a few before he got behind that big rock. Don't know how much I can get out of this one but I've included a web sized version of the unprocessed frame to give an idea of what I was working with. The light was incredible, more of just a sit back and enjoy moment, than a photo opportunity. I probably messed it up more with my PP than just leaving it alone.

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    Hi Steve - you've gotten some good suggestions already above. It's a nice scene and I see why you like it. Tough lighting conditions. Based on the last frame seems the op was a fairly large crop that is probably augmenting the problems.

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    Interesting Steve, when you take the 'cast' away from the above image, you get a warm orange glow to parts of the LH sky? Wonder if that was in keeping with what you saw?
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    Thanks for the interest Rachel and Steve. And Steve, you are correct about the orange glow. Here's a better representation of the color and light at the time. It was smoky skies and there was a band of clouds running about even with the top of the mountains with brighter, clearer skies above that. It was somewhat cool as it tends to get over 10,000ft in the evening but the the sunset was giving everything as far as you could see a warm, peachy-orange glow. A great way to end a nice day in the mountains. We've talked about it before on another post about how great it would be if the viewers could truly enjoy the sounds, smells, and feel of the moment and this was one of those occasions. I guess that's partly why I posted this image. The more I look at this, the more representative it seems to be of my past year of photography, a bunch of "almosts" Think I need to give this hobby a break for a few months. Thanks again for the comments.

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    Hi Steve, spot on to what I did and it's really great to see how it's progressed. Certainly that 'warm orange glow' has a lovely feel within the image and personally I would look to re working the image overall, breaking it down into sections so you can 'build' the image and I do feel you have quite a strking image in the original capture.

    The more I look at this, the more representative it seems to be of my past year of photography, a bunch of "almosts" Think I need to give this hobby a break for a few months.
    Steve, to my knowledge we ALL go through these phases every now and then, questioning and throwing doubt, however it would be a real shame not to see you posting and commenting.
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    Steve - I agree with Steve K. It would be a shame for you to stop shooting for a while. My feeling is that there are very few, if any, perfect captures out there but a huge number of almosts that we can learn from for next time. I also find that there are times I am too critical of my own shots because of striving for the perfect shot. Stick with it.

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