Pronghorns

Gallery: WildlifePosted May 8, 2012116 views2 comments

I don't see Pronghorns in the area south of Scottsbluff, north I see a lot. I was coming out of Buffalo Creek Wildlife Management Area and a couple of Pronghorns were right next to the road. They stopped and posed for me a few minutes. I needed to get my camera and lens on and they just waited. The sun was fairly high, but there were a few very high and light clouds to help defuse the light some. I tried to enhance the little bit of catch light in the eye of the animal on the left, does it look unnatural.
Thanks for all C&C input.

Canon 30D
Tokina 80-400
Aperture Priority
Shutter 1/2000
Aperturef8
ISO 400
340mm
Cropped to 75% of original
Color corrected in PSE9

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2 comments

Comment posted by Peter Cross on May 8, 2012 at 10:16 PM

Nice one, Richard. The pronghorn I've seen have never been that cooperative. Very good pose for you and you got excellent detail on the animals. Catch light looks fine to me. The only change I might havr tried was to get more DOF by reducing the shutter speed. The BG seems to have bands where the focus changes and it looked a bit strange to me. As they were standing there waiting for you to get your your gear assembled, you probably could have shot it way slower. Other than that, a fine image that certainly places these animals in their native environment.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on May 11, 2012 at 6:05 PM

HI Richard,

Nice to have cooperative subjects! On the eye - nope, doesn't look unnatural to me - wouldn't have thought it was "enhanced" if you didn't mention it yourself.

When I look at the larger version I'm left wondering if cropping out some of the out-of-focus foreground might be worth trying? My personal preference is often for "grounding" subjects like this by placing them low in the frame (and at the same time you'd lose some of the most out-of-focus grasses, which - in my opinion - don't really enhance the image).

Cheers...

Brad

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