This one is from early summer at Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge. I waited and waited for them to all turn there heads the same direction and finally a coyote passed by and got there attention.
40/500mm/iso400/f8@1/800
Absolutely lovely Trey. Love the interaction and pose. Feel with a bit of TLC, this could pop real good. Hope u don't mind but feel it could go a tad darker and have played with sharpening. There is a bit of interest in various sharpening techniques and on this occasion, I just did a selection on bg, inverse and added a layer via copy, set normal in blend mode to luminosity and went straight to 10%, 20 & 4... NOTE after adjusting brightness to -17. Normally, I would do three rounds of 50%, 0.2-0.3 and 4ish, but the fur on these critters is bristly, so don't need to sharpen that. Hope makes sense. Forgot to add, added nr on bg, :D. Just another point, adding a couple of + on the blacks in selective color will help. (A bit of the depth is lost in the download, as my own CS3 save file shows better color and depth than the post and guess that too, needs to be adjusted for just as one might over sharpen a tad for printing).
Last edited by David Fletcher; 08-15-2009 at 02:11 PM.
Glad you waited for the perfect moment Not often you see four so well as you have here !!!
Very nice re post and with group this large center framing looks just fine Big Congrats !!! Another idea for helping out the original is a slight contrast boost with curves !!!
This is so well timed it almost looks like the same animal in time lapse were it not for the variance in size . I like David's repost here. Alfred's idea is a good one on contrast.
Nice to see your patience and the passing coyote worked out for you. Great detail, perch, and BG. Nice little tweak by David made a good image even better.
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