More from an interest point of view. Must be very unusual to see twins in the wild and these are very young, one can see the umbilical cords still. It is a large crop - I don't have the lens length to make this a really good photo;)
Hi Jeni Look good with your lens !!! I like the cropping leaving some room for the virtual feet, good behavior and did capture something unusual. Would have like the mom to be looking more toward the camera but I see she has is very busy !!!
Light angle would also help but I know is not possible in most of these. You can do some work in PS to lighten some of the shadows just a little without getting muddy !!!
Jeni, I agree with Al on the dark shadows. I put the image into CS3 and tried to open it up a bit using the shadow/highlight adjustment. It did a nice job of pulling everything up a level but then you could really see the noise and some halo effects from the big crop.
What a sweet image, Jeni. I'm amazed you were able to get that close so soon after birth (thanks for pointing out the umbilical cords which I probably would have missed otherwise)?
Thank you for commenting. Al, the crop is really gi - normous! I used my 300mm f/4 with a 1.4x giving me an effective 420 x1.6 and I guess I'm still about 300 short. I was surprised to get as much detail as I did.
Julie, in PS I used Noise Ninja on the background and also cloned out the halo around the animals.
Katie, she was on a hill about 200metres from me accompanied by a male with completely skew horns!!. The rest of the herd was a little distance from them.
Another question - I see the calf on the left is a little girl; in bovine if the twin is male, the chances are 90% that the female would be sterile, I wonder if this would apply to wildlife as well?:)
Eland cow with twin calves
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