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    ...she didn't know what to do! I think the "old lady in a shoe" and the mom prairie dog have much in common! These prairie dog pups just kept popping up out of the burrow and there were even more than these 5! I used the car as a blind and a bean bag on the window frame. This is at the edge of town and I always get funny looks from people going by wondering just what the heck I am doing. This time I had a policeman stop to make sure I was o.k.! I am always surprised that people don't seem to even see these prairie dogs. They do live in a colony so they are not hard to miss.

    Canon 1Dx, Canon 200-400 f4 L IS internal 1.4 ext @ 560mm, 1/800, f9, +1 exp. comp., ISO 800.

    comments and critiques most appreciated.

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    like the group capture and your DOF to get them all sharp. Also low angle and nice BG. I like it as is, but wonder how it would look if the exposure was slightly reduced.

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    Hi Nancy - What a fun image and great capture. Perfect choice to go with the pano and great dof. Processing looks better too. I would tame the highlights a bit more with a luminosity mask at about 35% or so. Nice to see another species too.

    TFS,
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    Hi Nancy

    Very nice. Like the comp and that they all have eye contact.

    TFS, Gregor

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    Hi Nancy , like this line up a lot , specially all looking more or less to the viewer , good timing by you.
    Pano works nice and the colors looking good .
    You might tone down the Red channel via APPLY IMAGE set to multiply and mask it with the red channel .

    TFS Andreas

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    I think this is great. How you managed to get them all to look up, but not at you, and not have any heads intersecting is great. I think it looks a tad too yellow to me, but I'm not that familiar with these.
    Ed

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    Hello Nancy!

    I cannot image better framing for these cute little chaps! Read your info with much interest, my guess is people take them for granted and not many individuals take as much joy in seeing them as you do. This is such a delightful scene and I enjoyed viewing, a lot.

    I am not familiar with the species so perhaps I should not comment on the subjects' colour, although I secretly wish for a bit more "punch" when it comes to the prairie dogs, perhaps a slight curve adjustment (selectively applied to the subjects) might help? On the other hand, the colouring might be spot-on, I realise they have to blend with the environment so I could be wrong making this suggestion. Overall a lovely image, great eye contact, the pano really works and the presentation is great-thank you for sharing this with us!

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    Thank you everyone for your very helpful comments. I agree about the image needing addition "punch". Here is version 2. I tried to use the red channel method Andreas suggested, but not sure I did it right.

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    Hi Nancy , not just as i described to work ,can see the result . Think i should have gone more in depth.

    The RP from is edited as follows ,

    Duplicate BG Layer .
    Activate Red channel on BG Copy
    set blend mode to Luminosity on BG copy
    Go to APPLY Image and multiply the red channel with itself .
    Add layer mask to BG copy
    Go to Apply image and apply the Red Channel from BG to the layer mask .
    CMD -J to duplicate the BG copy layer .
    Clip the BG copy 2 layer with BG copy layer.
    Activate the two multiplied layers
    CMD -G to group them and set opacity to taste.

    Hope that helps , i have slightly more detail in the shadow areas, i think

    Cheers Andreas

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    Andreas, Thank you, thank you! Much appreciate your repost and the specific instructions. Will go practice.

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