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    Another wolf photograph from the the wildlife parc in arctic Scandinavia that Krijn and I visited last winter. While I prefer photographing in the wild....captive situations sometimes bring oppertunities to record behaviour very difficult to capture in the wild. Here I had the time to wait for this wolf to become totally relaxed and that resulted in this yawn before it went to sleep.

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    fantastic shot. the open jaw is amazing.
    It would be pretty hard to get this in the wild, especially in Europe.

    Here I don't mind that the eyes are closed. This adds to the yawning.

    I like the soft light. I only wish for some detail in the snow but this was probably beyond the sensors capability.

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    Oh yeah the yawn shot! Love the composition and pose of this one.
    The appearence of the colours in this one do seem a little dull to my eye. It is either too much contrast, too cool (the snow does appear a bit blue), or not enough saturation, if this was the mood you wanted to create then it's just not completely my thing. Also under its jaw there seems to be something blurry going on, I can't completely put my finger on it but it looks like a Gaussian Blur effect.
    Appart from these very small and mostly personal nits this is an excellent shot that I didn't get, well done

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    Quote Originally Posted by Krijn Trimbos View Post
    Also under its jaw there seems to be something blurry going on, I can't completely put my finger on it but it looks like a Gaussian Blur effect.
    Hi Krijn,

    This is OOF snow in the foreground because of the very low angle....

    The sun was already gone here as you know...which caused the slight blue tone. If you'd take the snow back to white, colours would look way to yellow and unnatural to my eye. If I would increase the colours here, things would start to look really unnatural too....I struggled with that a bit, but chose for the most natural appearance in my eyes.

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    Hi Jasper,

    Thanks for explaining. Of course I know that when you get low the snow becomes OOF, but that wasn't what I was referring to. When it comes to the blurry part it wasn't the snow I was talking about. There is also OOF snow to the right of its jaw that doesn't seem to show the same effect. I am talking about a blurry effect in between its jaw and the snow. It might just be my eyes (becomming a little 'kippig' ;) ) getting a little old.
    I understand your struggle, I looked back at my photo's and noticed that the snow is white in every one of them, maybe I am just not a blue snow kind of guy. Having looked back at your shot a couple of times I think the colours of the wolf look good, although I would have maybe saturated the tongue a bit more.

    Cheers buddy,

    Krijn

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    You're getting old hahaha....it is snow that I was shooting through....which makes the stuff behind the snow look blurry....I can show you more examples of that.

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    Haha ok ok I believe you! Where did you get your glasses? as obviously I need some :D But you understand what I was referring to right, I mean I'm not seeing things that aren't there. Thanks for the explanation gast!

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    Fantastic image Jasper, the low angle makes the open jaw even more impressive. I don't mind the cool tone it adds to the cold scene IMO.

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    Hi jasper I only can arrive after the previous: like the yawning, great capture, fine details.

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    Well done Jasper for all the reasons mentioned.

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    Love the detail in the wolf and the open mouth as well.

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