Theme: North American Coyote

[dankearl]

This is not a captive.
Taken at a local wildlife refuge.

1/320, f5, iso400, 420mm (300 w/ 1.4) D7000, HH from vehicle

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[Nancy Bell]

This is excellent with a perfect point-blank penetrating stare. Great detail in the fur on the face and the chest. From a design point of view, I like that the orange-red rim on the ears ties in so well with the same color around the eyes and nose. Simple blue bkgd could not be more perfect to focus the attention on the face and that stare. I would consider cropping a bit of blue from the right side as it seems to be too much blank space, and my eyes drift over there looking for something.
I am envious that you can get so close to a coyote. Around here if you point anything at them they believe the worst and run for their life.

[Ashleigh Scully]

Wow this is just incredible. The sharpness and clarity are amazing. I can't believe you got so close. The details on the face!! I love this! Great shot!

[Loi Nguyen]

Nice and sharp, good light. Love that penetrating stare. The eyes look just a touch dark to me, you may want to consider brighten them a tad. TFS. Loi

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Dan - this is great and Nancy's description of the stare as penetrating is perfect. Excellent detail and dof to have the whole head sharp. There's some blue fringing in the edges of the fur and noticeable down the side of the coyote's chest. Along the lines of Nancy's suggestion you could try a 16x9 as an alternate crop coming in from the right and the bottom to move the head more off-center. Overall really well done image.

TFS and participating in this month's theme,
Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Dan, nice portrait and I love the blue sky as the backdrop.

I'm wonder if you revisit the RAW and try adjusting the CA to help reduce the blue fringing on the fur? I'm also curious to see that there looks like some noise in the fur towards the rear, did you lighten the image as at ISO400 and being Nikon to? Also the light seems very even across the whole subject with little if any tonally difference, just me thinking out loud . I guess I am just comparing against the lovely 'Ducks' you have been recently posting.

TFS
Steve

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Dan,
nice portrait with a very clean and contrast BG to the subject, nicely seen.
Like the stare in the face.But i am with Steve about the noise ? / sharpening ? just too heavy . To me it is not looking sharp (the fur) , just gritty.
Think revisit the raw and start with lower settings , could help evtl.
TFS Andreas

[Anette Mossbacher]

Hi Dan,

what a great image, I like this very much. Would love the eyes to be a tad more open or looking at you. But this is for me a not a deal breaker at all
Love the details and the BG, very nice.


Have a great eve

Ciao
Anette

[Jamie Douglas]

Dan, this is awesome although I tend to think it's a touch over sharpened.

Well worth exploring a repost as the contrast in colour tones are exceptional.

Jamie

[Morkel Erasmus]

Cracking portrait Dan! Love the stare and the tones. I agree that it looks slightly oversharpened.
Steve's made some good suggestions on the fringing fur.
Looking forward to more!

[dankearl]

Thanks for the comments, I agree about the sharpening.
This is an old file from the D7000 days and it would take me awhile to find the RAW,
but I may look and try to redo it.