I shot this moose the same morning as the previous post. This young one was around the back of a logging road just about to exit the woods when we saw it. We pulled onto the logging road in a small red rental car just off the road and waited for a few minutes. We were about 100 yards from the moose but as soon as it noticed the car, the moose made a beeline for us. It seemed to want a companion to play with. I shot through the window as it got closer. This is full frame with a sliver extra extra added on top as I almost cut off the tip of an ear. This was right at daylight so I didn't have much light to work with. Right after shooting this I had to move the car out of its path, because I thought it might want to continue down the road to cross the highway. However, the moose just came up, looked at us for a while, and started drinking some water out of a puddle. It never showed any signs of distress and eventually eased back into the woods. We stayed for a while to make sure it wasn't about to cross the hwy. in front of any traffic, but thankfully it went away from the hwy.
Techs:
D3S
500mm f4 AF-S II
500mm
ISO 4000
f/6.3
1/400
My techs could have been better here. It had just walked out of a shaft of light, so I had exposure comp. set at -2/3 again. I had to bring up some shadows, but otherwise just sharpened the moose, NR on the BG, and cloned out a few flies. All C&C welcome.







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