I used Alot of tonemapping on this to get the desired effect. I wanted it to look dramatic. Burnt more of the sky, sharpened the Deer. Neatimaged the clouds a bit. and the usual curves and hue-sat, and selective colour.
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After looking at your portfolio for about the 10th time in the past year. I have to ask. Do you walk around with salt pellets in your pocket that these awesome beasts just follow you and your camera around? You have several great photos like this one. Very Amazing shot. I would have pinned the blue on this if it were up to only me.
Wow! Just wow, I love the what you have done in making this subject so dramatic. I didn't both to enter this contest because all the animals here are brown, so I figured a brown and white would not ribbon. Boy did you prove me wrong, using the sky and the colors on the horns and just everything is perfection.
Congrats Alex, I bet you were convinced all week with an 8+ score that you would have this one in the bag. I would have loved to seen your face this morning when you turned your computer on and find you didn't take the bluey but (only) the red ribbon :)
Bad news Alex... I'm gonna have to ban you. I used to OWN the 70-200 lens page, but you've been blowing right through it with these so-called "amazing" photos. Oh, suuuuure... that's fine if you like amazing. Some of us are into mediocre and would appreciate a little consideration. Sorry dude, but I really have no choice. You can come back when you switch to Nikon or buy a lens I can't afford.
And we were only talking about multiple 8+ contests the day before yesterday...!
Congrats on Red - bad luck that you came up against some superb competition!!
Multiple 8's puts both the blue and red from this competition in the top shots ever on DPC. Blue is 7th and this photo is 11th. Incredible stats and some tough competition! Congrats on a great accomplishment and photo!
Bloddy hell.... Couldn´t let me have the 5D highscore for more than 2 months now could you... Think it´ll be yours from now on, wich is cool dude cause now I can explain to my wife why I need to upgrade when the time comes :)
Love the post-processing choices with saturation and sky color. The elk really pops. I'm really sorry about the one piece of horn sticking out of the photo, but it doesn't detract much. The square crop is effective here. 9.
Almost perfect, let me explain, the subject is so perfect in focus, while the background being so soft, pulls my eye away from the Elk, (hard to explain). Solid 9 all the same.
I believe I am looking at the blue ribbon in this challenge.
This is exceptional and a photograph I really would expect to see in a gallery.
Adding to my favorites twice. (well I tried anyway)
Majestic this stag certainly is! The exposure and focussing couldn't be faulted - the detail in the texture of the coat and antlers is very good, and I love the light on the antlers. My quibble is with the composition - I presume that there is something that would spoil the shot if it included the stag's legs, but the composition as it is does spoil the overall effect. The other compositional issue, and one that you would have had more control over, is that the tip of the right antler has been cut-off. Despite that, a strong contender.
A shot that easily makes my top5 faves from this challenge. Only reason I give this a 9 but not a 10 is because of his left antler being cut off at the top of the frame and because of the burning near the left side isn't too tidy. Awesome shot though. I have a good guess on the photog too. Wondering if I'm right ;) This style is just wonderful.
almost perfect composition, if the horn wasn't cropped. nice background, good colorcontrast, maybe a tad too dark overall. almost oversharpened, fur shows slight pixelation - 7
Oh wow...that is quite a rack he has there and you captured it perfectly. The only thing (and its tiny really) is the antler sticking into the frame. Other than that...wow. (9)
Wow - Great sharpness and great capture on a much photographed subject - Love the moody blue lighting and clouds - Really well done - Should do well.10
Amazing image! first, I am telling you I am giving you a 9, `cause for much that I loooved it I can see little details that dont make this a perfect image... 1-the crop that cuts the right horn, and 2-a little halo around the horns (but actually, I do like halos... :P) anyway, I guess you are gonna do great! so good luck :D
the image is good with good colours and sharpness. the animal have a good pose (I liken't the composition in the middle but I suppose that you can't choose a better position). the crop on the upper side (right) is a bit distracting. 8
cool shot but a little over processed i find. The photograph looks a little to digital. and maybe the square crop could have been a little bigger to not let the right antler touch the frame, but that's a little detail. good work.
wow...awesome shot. love the sky as background rather than the standard trees lots of folks have. only nitpic I have is cropping the antler tip in the top right of the frame.
The tone mapping, if that's what you used, is leaving artificial looking areas around the horns. The end result is almost like looking at a Diorama of an elk in a natural history museum. At the same time it's a really striking image. But it's hard to be sure if that's a live or a dead animal, the tonal balance is so unnatural. I'm assuming it's live because the fur doesn't look groomed. I wish I didn't have this ambivalence about the unnatural evenness of BG and subject. I wish the BG were a stop brighter than it is. Sigh. Good luck!
Hahn? If this is not Richard, then someone must have been walking on Hahn's turf and shooting his bucks.
This is the true candidate for the front page. Good luck!
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