Coyote with a leg up
by Jared Gricoskie
Today in Rocky the park service culled a few elk and I found one of the gut piles. Here is a shot on the approach of the coyote after I had been hanging around for the better part of an hour shooting magpies.
D300, 500mm, f4, 1/1000th, ISO 400, tripod, overcast.
In the editing with CS3, the shot with the foot raise was a bit tight so I took the prior shot, merged the two images with photo merge, masked the coyote in the prior shot and took the area around the tail from the previous image to give it more room in the left. Then cropped, I cropped the top off due to really distracting dead willows, hopefully with less elk, that should become less of a problem.
Coming up next post, the blood and guts, literally :)
Comments
6 commentsThe end result is really nice. I love the classic coyote pose and stare. And the warm browns mixed with snow remind me of a Bev Doolittle painting. The coyote is really sharp too. The only thing I am on the fence about is the tall grass & brush behind his head. But there's not much you could do about it. Overall, I really like this.
You photoshopped this? I would only have expected some minor tweaks! Nice work!
Anyway, what a great pose you captured , I really like the raised paw. The comp is good too, even if it is the result of PS!
-Cam