This photo was taken at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone NP. There were numerous calves playing around the springs, and this little guy finally gave me a good pose. This was shot from the boardwalk with the use of a tripod.
Nkon D100, ISO 250, shutter 1/80, F 5.3, focal length 230mm.
Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
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5 commentsBeautiful shot! I love the rim lighting, the eyelash highlight, the eye contact, the chin separation from the back, the delicately opened-up shadows, the blood veins in the ears.
Would love to see this 1200.
Neil
I am new to NPN and some of the terms, but I assume you are refering to the original image. I cropped down about 10% from the original. The original had a partly body of another elk on the LH side. Thanks for the comments.
An endearing pose and I quite like the rim lighting on the ears (and how light is just gently touching a few hairs on the top of the head and under the eye. If the image were mine I'd probably experiment with bringing out just a tad more shadow detail in the facial region, including along the top of the snout. I'd go real easy on this, probably in the 1/3 of a stop range. On my monitor the hairs on the calf are looking slightly over-sharpened, which is REAL easy to do with this type of strongly directional lighting.
Cheers...thanks for sharing this...
Brad