Challenge:Wildlife II (Advanced Editing IV*) Camera:Kodak DX4530 Location: Lone Elk Park in St. Louis County MO Date: Jan 23, 2006 Aperture: f4.8 ISO: 140 Shutter: 1/20 Galleries:Nature, Animals Date Uploaded: Jan 24, 2006
Taken with my 2x telephoto lense, about 20 or so feet from this elk. This was taken in the evening, so I had to do some post-processing. Increased the saturation, brightness, and contrast as well as a slight curve adjustment on all channels. Slow shutter speed due to late evening sun caused the slight blur.
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Good pic. Too bad about the complete lack of light. It looks like you tried to brighten it up and get some contrast to bring him out, but in so doing you burned your background edges on the trees.
Gah.. lol I dont think i'd wanna play ;) seems a little out of focus and a tad darker than I would have gone.. *but thats just me*.. how close were you btw?? :o
photo is too dark, and because of that, the antler branchings get lost in the background and the coat of the elk comes out much darker than one would expect it, also the cropping off of some of his antlers hurts too, this of course is all IMO
4 - Looks like possibly good potential. Criticism; nudge rotation up on the right, sharper, less contrast (looks like pp issues here), a tweaking of colors and a crop variation (depending what you had to work with) all make this better in my opinion.
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