Shot with a Canon 10D, 70-200mm 2.8L w/IS, shot in shutter priority at 1/250, f6.7, 6.3 MP and ISO 800. It was dawn.
This was shot in Yosemite National Park and a Coyote approached. The bucks movement alerted me to the coyote who was alone so pretty much minded his busines, chased a few Ravans or Crows and ran off.
Posted by Steve Sieren on November 18, 2008 at 11:53 PM
That's a nice looking mule deer buck Stephen. You captured the reaction pretty well. What's the grey band across the top? The misty foggy background add to the atmosphere of his reaction.
Posted by Nelcha Cross on November 19, 2008 at 5:37 AM
Glad you got some wildlife active in the Park, Stephen.
They seemed to elude me on my trip.
Happy the coyote is still OK.
Could you tell if it was the male or female?
Were you there alone of with a group?
Hope you enjoyed your stay there
My guess is that the top gray band is something close in the foreground OOF ??
*cheers*
Nelcha, Sacramento
"Let the beauty we love, be what we do." ~ Rumi
A very nice first post here, Stephen. I would recommend increasing your image sizes to the regional site allowable sizes of 720 pixels on the long side. It gives us a chance to take things in a bit better overall. Not sure what has caused the band across the top of the image, but it does cut down on the viewable area enough to be noticed. Otherwise a nicely captured action shot. It is always good to be able take in some nice wildlife images in a fine natural setting such as Yosemite too.
Posted by Lon Overacker on November 19, 2008 at 3:37 PM
Stephen,
Welcome to NPN and the CANP regional forum. Glad to have you here. Make sure you add a post to the "CANP rollcall" post at the top of the message list and introduce yourself.
The captured image is a great nature story and you certainly captured this at what seems like a peak reaction. Even without your story, it's clear the buck is wary of something.
Looks to me like this is really suffering from jpg compression and I'm wondering what the gray band is at the top as well. It looks to straight and uniform to be something in the scene, perhaps you took this from the car?
Feel free to share some additional information about processing if you would like some additional feedback. We're all here to help if we can.
Thank you Lon for the welcome.
You pegged it right, I was in the car and shooting through a fence. I simply could not get the camera lower. Hence, the gray band.
The resizing of the picture was done poorly. Paul made a suggestion as to the log side at 720 pixels. I pulled the original photo and replaced it, utilizing his suggestion.
Processing-I made some tweeks in PhotoShop's RAW and then converted to JPEG. I made the long side 720 pixels and sent it off. Is that correct?
Thanks again,
Steve
Hmmmm, in reading your reply here Stephen I think all sounds good and okay, however, I'm not sure what you mean by sent it off?
If you do any follow up posts of images it does require 24 hours between posts here in the regional forum for members and 72 hours for guests, and 48 hours between image posts in all the normal NPN galleries for members and one week for non-members. I hope this may answer your question about it being correct?
As a matter of record the larger size or optional size if you will of 1200 pixel long side x 500k file size, is only in the NPN galleries and not in any of the regional sites which are limited to the 720 pixel long side x 200k file size.
Posted by Anil Rao on November 20, 2008 at 9:20 PM
Hi Stephen,
Welcome to CANP. I love this photograph and the natural feel of it. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Discussion
8 repliesThis was shot in Yosemite National Park and a Coyote approached. The bucks movement alerted me to the coyote who was alone so pretty much minded his busines, chased a few Ravans or Crows and ran off.
They seemed to elude me on my trip.
Happy the coyote is still OK.
Could you tell if it was the male or female?
Were you there alone of with a group?
Hope you enjoyed your stay there
My guess is that the top gray band is something close in the foreground OOF ??
*cheers*
Nelcha, Sacramento
"Let the beauty we love, be what we do." ~ Rumi
Welcome to NPN and the CANP regional forum. Glad to have you here. Make sure you add a post to the "CANP rollcall" post at the top of the message list and introduce yourself.
The captured image is a great nature story and you certainly captured this at what seems like a peak reaction. Even without your story, it's clear the buck is wary of something.
Looks to me like this is really suffering from jpg compression and I'm wondering what the gray band is at the top as well. It looks to straight and uniform to be something in the scene, perhaps you took this from the car?
Feel free to share some additional information about processing if you would like some additional feedback. We're all here to help if we can.
Welcome aboard.
Lon
You pegged it right, I was in the car and shooting through a fence. I simply could not get the camera lower. Hence, the gray band.
The resizing of the picture was done poorly. Paul made a suggestion as to the log side at 720 pixels. I pulled the original photo and replaced it, utilizing his suggestion.
Processing-I made some tweeks in PhotoShop's RAW and then converted to JPEG. I made the long side 720 pixels and sent it off. Is that correct?
Thanks again,
Steve
If you do any follow up posts of images it does require 24 hours between posts here in the regional forum for members and 72 hours for guests, and 48 hours between image posts in all the normal NPN galleries for members and one week for non-members. I hope this may answer your question about it being correct?
This photo posting guideline link maybe of help if you had not seen this before.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/postguide-2.html#5
As a matter of record the larger size or optional size if you will of 1200 pixel long side x 500k file size, is only in the NPN galleries and not in any of the regional sites which are limited to the 720 pixel long side x 200k file size.
Welcome to CANP. I love this photograph and the natural feel of it. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Regards.