Grand Teton Moose

Ralph,

What a wonderful pose, if possible I would try to lighten the fur a little, but not with s& H otherwise the halos will get worse,
Regarding the halos, I really have no idea what causes them, but in my experience it is nearly always when you have blue next to a dark colour, but they are not that noticeable

A fine pose in a very nice setting, Ralph, especially the colors and details in the grasses. I also like that the background is recognizable, but soft enough to keep it from pulling attention from the moose. What was the radius setting on your USM? This looks very much like what I see at the land/sky interface after applying Tony Kuyper's triple play, which uses an unsharp mask at a large radius setting (5 - 20+) and low amounts (20 - 50).

I think Mark may be onto something with the Radius setting.

I'm curious about your decision to leave more foreground in rather than more of the sky. With the upward pose (which is great), it seems like my eye tends to move upward, and I feel the extra space at the bottom is sort of working counter to that. Nice shot overall, Ralph.

Max

Hi Ralph,

Definitely a classic pose - that alone makes this one a strong keeper! I tend to agree with Max about wishing there was less foreground and more room above the bull's head. One "scene problem" (i.e., something you could do nothing about) that impacts a LITTLE on the image is that near-white featureless sky...in a perfect world, eh?

Agree that the halo is noticeable, but without knowing more about your steps in post-processing it's pretty much impossible to guess where it came from. I'm skeptical about it being a function of temperature differential between subject and the air, but not saying that's impossible (just can't figure out why it would create a halo).

Cheers...

Brad

Sweet lip curl you captured here Ralph I really like the background too. Not sure of the halo cause though. Is it visible in the raw file?
Wish the moose would have been this co-operative when I was there.

Lovely pose and setting.
Ditto on the halos, most probably due to selective adjustments on moose vs background or rough application of shadow recovery...easy to correct but you'll have to process from scratch and make sure you mind not inducing them.

That it an awesome pose you captured Ralph! I too would like a little more room up top and less on the bottom. You could add a bit of canvas up top with just that blank sky at the top of the frame. An image I would love to have taken!