Taken on the Mt. Norquay Road in Banff, Canada in the early morning.
Canon 7D
100-400 @ 340mm
1/400
f5.6
ISO 800
HH, slight levels adjustment, s/h and sharpened in CS5.
C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,
Rachel
Bighorn Ewe
Taken on the Mt. Norquay Road in Banff, Canada in the early morning.
Canon 7D
100-400 @ 340mm
1/400
f5.6
ISO 800
HH, slight levels adjustment, s/h and sharpened in CS5.
C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,
Rachel
Rachel,
Well composed on the body and good DOF given the shooting specs. I would crop this heavily on the right to get the head out of the center of the frame. The right side is distracting space that takes attention away from the subject.
Nice eye contact and the ewe really blends into the cliff wall.
Very well exposed; agree with Robert on the crop.
Cheers, Jay
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Thanks Robert, Dan and Jay. Here's a repost with the suggested crop from the right.
Rachel
Rachel, I really like the repost. Her color is so different from the bighorns here in MT that she seems like a different species to me. I like the eyes too.
Andrew
Thanks Andrew. I wonder if the color is an adaptation to the shale in the area, although we saw 2 rams at the same time and they were more brown.
Rachel
Hi Rachel,
Really like the BG with all the edges, crannies, and spots of color. I prefer the smack dab in the center OP because of the nice dividing line created by the fissure behind her head. Also helps me remember the wide open nature of the cliffs they inhabit. I'd lighten the bottom edge of the right ear just a touch to get a little more separation from the BG.
Hi Rachel, looks like you are getting to grips with both your photography & PP, so well done. Either posts work for me, but I think the RP just has the edge. Just a little confused on the approach B/W or colour, or is it me?
TFS
Steve
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Thanks Steve & Steve. This is color, her color was pretty much the same as the rocks except the rocks had some rust color on them.
Rachel
Rachel, like the reposted crop a bit more, and also really like the industrial feeling colours you have captured here, in both subject and background. Something quite different. Nice pp work too.
cheers
Grant
Thanks Grant, much appreciated.
RP works for me; I would not get any closer to the LHS. Given the colors, or lack of colors, it would be interesting to see what happens if this was processed as a B&W.
Cheers, Jay
My Digital Art - "Nature Interpreted" - can now be view at http://www.luvntravlnphotography.com
"Nature Interpreted" - Photography begins with your mind and eyes, and ends with an image representing your vision and your reality of the captured scene; photography exceeds the camera sensor's limitations. Capturing and Processing landscapes and seascapes allows me to express my vision and reality of Nature.
Rachel,
The repost has that in-your-face the image demanded. Well done.
Thanks Jay and Robert
Interesting fella captured here Rachel!
I like the repost more for composition. The bighorn blends in so well with the BG (and that may just be the point?) but I felt it could do with some 'pop'.
This is a very quick repost so I worked a bit sloppy in selection...
Selected the animal and layered. Went to BG layer and applied multiplied luminosity layer at 80% opacity to darken the BG. I also used the burn tool at 10% highlights to burn the BG even more.
I like what it did - though it might not look natural as you remember the scene......WDYT?
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