B&W Buckscape (repost)

Beautiful shot Jenaya, I didn't see the original but I love the look and feel of this one.

Standout image, Jenaya. Amazing how many different comps you can get from one image. I really like how you've cropped this. Much more powerful. But I think I prefer the color over the B&W. Regardless, both are well done. Now as to this buck--he must have access to a really great food source as when I first looked at the original, I thought it was an elk. Impressive.

Good job with the re-working of your shot Jenaya.
I much prefer the new crop although I would like to see it in colour rather than B+W.

Hi Jenaya,

Interesting approach to "solving" the issues mentioned on the previous version. I think now I'm feeling less bothered by the weakness of the background. But...now that the colour difference is gone between foreground and background (and you don't have the strong band of colour along the bottom), I'm wondering if the fairly extreme pano crop is really needed or beneficial (I'm trying to look at this image on it's own - not simply how it compares to the previous iteration)? I'm thinking a crop at the "t" in launsteinimagery.com (removing about a third of left side of the image) might make a stronger image? I realize that this might represent a pretty major crop from the original...

Hope this makes some sense to you...cheers...

Brad

Way to go; I definitely prefer this over the original.

I like you approach, but I think I agree with Brads comments. It sounds like you all had a great trip.

Hi Jenaya. The form of the mountains in the background is a lot more aesthetic in my opinion in this photo. I agree with Brad that the extreme pano is probably overkill here though. Going black and white gives the impression that the foreground grass could be natural prairie, a good thing.