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    Default On a Slow Day in Yellowstone . . .

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    You drive around and hope to find bison or elk in a nice location for an animalscape (of course you might also shoot landscapes). Here some bison moved across a ridge with the mountains above Mammoth Hot Springs behind them.

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    Rachel,

    Love the idea here but would like to offer a few suggestions. We had some rather flat light to work with and a bright overcast sky which presented problems for wider views. If you were going with some sky in the image zooming out a bit more (EXIF shows you at 135mm so you had some room) to include the top of the peak in the UR would have helped. I think the sky could have been dramatized a bit in post. Zooming in a bit to take the sky away completely would have worked as well. Habitat is shown well in the image and I like the composition of the bison with a strong diagonal.

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    Hi Rachel. This is a beautiful scene. I love the mountains and the FG with those bisons grazing. Nicely composed and superb colours.

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    Nice scene here Rachel, I like Dale's suggestion of zooming a tad closer here with the flat sky.
    Colours and contrast look well handled.
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    Thanks Dale, Sanjeev and Morkel. much appreciated. Yes, cropping from the top or zooming in more in the field were options here and I actually looked at a crop from the top. I didn't like it as much because if I crop out the sky, then I lose most of the undulations of the mountains. I do regret clipping the peak on the right.

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    Dearest Rachel,

    I love your animalscapes, I so wish I had some of my own...I now realise that most of my images are portraits of animals and I should use my other lenses more, I am attached to that 500 but this will change:)

    I like the placement of the subjects in the frame and that vast BG is just awesome...I was going to suggest cropping a bit more from the top but I like it more as is - as you yourself said, those mountain tops complete the image so well, I would not want to lose them. What a tranquil scene, love to see so much of the environment and the colours look well balanced to me, so is the sharpening and detail. Mmm...wish I was there too

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    Thanks Gabriela. Yellowstone is so vast and the distances to the animals are often so great that you could create animalscapes even with your surgically attached 500.

    Thanks again,
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    I think it is a magic place, and it all comes through in your images, as well as Dale's.

    Amazing landscape. I still have to convince Andre to face the snow...

    Let us see more if you have, Rachel. So different from what I am accustomed to seeing on my trips, and I like those images as much as I liked the polar bear ones.

    Have a wonderful evening, hope you have time to look through those folders again:)
    Gabriela Plesea

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    Hi Rachel , everything works for me here except the clipped peak , rest a wonderfully framed image !

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    HI Rachel very nice overall frame with good colors and lovely overall tones and contrast . I would just loose the sky part to get a cleaner top of the image. I would have preferred the left Bison not being in the frame ........ or lifting his head , but that was out of your control so no big deal.

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    Thanks Haseeb and Andreas, much appreciated.

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    Hi Rachel, any frames further on where the LH Bison has it's head clear of the vegetation (not eating), but with a similar perspective?

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    Thanks Steve, unfortunately none with the one on the left in the clear or head raised. For the most part, bison walk while grazing. I was lucky to get the one on the right with its head raised.

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