Moose in the Rocky Mountains NP, July this year. Fairly close to the road, luckily in a bit of a shady area. Maybe a bit tight on the right hand side?
Canon 1DXII and 400/2.8II handheld.
f9, 1/1250, ISO4000, processed in Lightroom, slightly reduced the brightness in the top right corner, full frame except taking a little off the top.
Greg
Hi Greg - Always nice to see a close-up of a moose and I like the head turn here which gives us a good look at the felt on the antlers. I'm going to ask again how you adjust or set the white balance in post. There's a strong magenta cast on the op. Here's a rp where the only adjustment I've made is to set the white balance/tint by using the eyedropper and finding a mid-grey tone in the twigs in the upper right bg. Yes, the image is a bit tight on the right. Also some of the blacks are choked and also have a blue cast which is more prominent in the op. If it were mine, I would also try to lessen the visual impact of the bright oof area in the fg. It is well worth revisiting the RAW to see if you can recover some detail in the blacks and address the color issues.
Greg these are tricky, when I was in Yellowstone I found it best to use evaluative metering and overexpose by 1/3.
I agree with Rachel - I made the same colour mistakes when I first posted!
Love the pose here and velvet look of those antlers, what beautiful animal! Good framing and head angle is great. I also like the open eye and expression from the subject, nice timing, very well captured!
Good thinking on techs. But I think Jon is right, overexposing a bit would have been a good idea. Rachel's RP fixes nicely the colour cast issue.
I see you process your images in LR - try select "camera flat" or "neutral" when it comes to Camera Calibration, if not already doing so. Do not know what your workflow is so not sure this helps, just wanted to suggest a "linear curve" rather than "contrast".
Hope to see more from you, and if you have another cute image of a moose like this, please share it around Xmas!
Greg, a nice image here although not familiar with them personally. I don't really have anything to add to the comments already made about colour cast which has been fixed in the repost. Also tone, tightness of framing and OOF foreground grass blade. Still, I'd be pretty happy with this so thanks for sharing.
Thanks all for the comments, particularly to Rachel for the repost. As for my technique, I sometimes use the eyedropper, but I don't blame the tool. I can easily use the eyedropper and make it worse, so it still comes to judgement as to where to place the eyedropper, and then judging the result. As for calibration I usually use Camera Neutral or Standard, seeing which is better. I think that my eye is just not very good at judging color results, I really can't see magenta adjustments well, so will need more focus in processing on those aspects.
Greg
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