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    Default Dall Sheep Ram profile

    Taken on Turnagain Arm very slight crop for composition. EOS 7D, 500mm f/4L, ISO 400, f/8, 1/500, 500mm on tripod.

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    Hi Jim and welcome to the Wildlife Forum.

    Nice looking Ram and I really like the setting, as the BKG separates the subject well.

    I would suggest you adjust the Levels RHS to lighten it up, so it hits the base line. Reduce some of the yellow & blue in the Ram, increase the blue in the sky and selectively sharpen the Ram again primarily over the horns, as the image really the pops nice and illustrates the detain contained in there. Looks like some dust bunnies above the horn top RHC. Hope this helps, let me know if you want me to RP something to illustrate my suggestions.

    Hope to see more soon.

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    There is no sky in the background, it's all snow in a small meadow. What appear to be dust bunnies are OOF plant life just sticking out of the snow those I can clone out and thanks for pointing those out to me. I also appreciate the input on sharpening as I will do that as well and watch that in the future.

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    Thanks Jim, just looked high up on a mountain hill.

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    Some good suggestions given by Steve as usual. I like the view to the eye through the curl of the horn - nice vision!
    Slight head-turn towards you would have enhanced this IMHO.
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    I agree with Steve's suggestions and with Morkel that the head-angle is not ideal as the ram is facing away from you.

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    Thanks all for the input. It's forcing me to look at my shots with an even more critical eye. If I may, here is another look at the same ram taken just a few seconds later. Same camera settings, EOS 7D, ISO 400, f/8, 500mm. Again, slight crop for composition.


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    Hi Jim, the HA is a little better, but puzzled if this was a few seconds later, as the head is on the LHS, unless you moved?

    The RP is still dark and clogging a lot of the detail within the subject, especially in the curve of the horn. Working along the suggested comments above with the RAW file you could have a really nice image, this is applying it to a web size image with little data contained, the original will look great.

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    Jim - welcome to BPN and the wildlife forum. I prefer the second shot due to the HA and Steve's tweaks have really taken it up a notch. Looking forward to seeing more of your images.

    TFS,
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    Steve and Rachel thanks. I was little hesitant to brighten the horns too much, however, I can see from what you've done it does look better, again thanks, it's much appreciated.

    The ram had been a ways from me with a couple of ewes and decided that he wanted to walk over and check me out. I was set up just slightly above him after he came towards me. He walked over to within probably 70 feet and maybe a little closer. The different poses stem from the fact that he's looking around checking things out, as they normally do, before walking back up to his ewes.

    Again thank you for the input.

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    Steve's "brightened" re-post (#8) works very good for me.
    Tom

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    I really like the second pose of this ram in winter coat, with the snowy BG. Steve's repost makes it pop. Nice job, Jim.

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    Second image is much much better than first one Jim. Steve's repost took it to next level.
    Dall-sheep are big time on my list. Some day I guess.

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