Bison Calf - Edited

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LamarRedDog-TDS
LamarRedDog-TDS1468×2000 1.07 MB

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LamarRedDog.jpg
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This calf had just crossed the river in the Lamar Valley and was running to catch up to his momma.

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Looking at it here I feel like this could use more space in front of the calf. I cropped it from a landscape aspect to a portrait and cut it off at the tail end of momma.

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Canon R5, f10, iso 1000, 100-500+1.4tc at 631 mm. Cropped to portrait at about 40% of original. Topaz denoise and sharpen.

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Ed: this is a good shot showing the animal’s struggle to exit the river. You might consider burning the bright background a bit and checking for level.

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Thank you @Richard_Sandor for your help on this. I was thinking the BG looked a bit skewed, but just thought that was the river going downhill a bit. It looks better rotated a bit, and definitely looks better with the BG darkened a bit more. I also didn’t like the purple cast to the water so I tried to desaturate the reds and magentas, and increase saturation in the blues. It turned more grey, which I’m OK with.