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Posted by Timothy Brooks on Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:40 pm

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Hey guys! My name is Tim Brooks and I'm 17 years old. This is my first post. I took this photo in Yellowstone a few days ago. The coyote is wild, and I was lucky enough to get so close to it at sunset.

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F/5.6, 1/250, ISO 640.
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by Cindy Marple on Sun Jan 01, 2012 2:51 pm
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Welcome Tim, glad to have you here. You did a nice job on the exposure on this- a bit of fill flash I assume? Compositionally I'd have preferred the animal to be less centered- in this case less space to the left and more to the right of him would be more pleasing. 15mm- is this a controlled situation? If so I'd have tried to get the animal away from what looks like human footprints. Very nice first post!
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by Timothy Brooks on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:05 pm
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Thanks Cindy! I see what you mean about the framing. It was uncontrolled. And yes, I used a fill flash.
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by Cindy Marple on Sun Jan 01, 2012 3:17 pm
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Oh much better on the composition. Not only is the animal less centered, the clouds are much better and give you a dark frame on the right now which helps hold your eye in the frame.
For future reference, it is permitted to simply add a second version instead of replacing an image- that way other people that look at this later can see both versions.
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by bertiegregory on Sun Jan 01, 2012 5:20 pm
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Sweet shot Tim, glad you had a good trip with the nug team!
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by fiznatty on Sun Jan 01, 2012 6:35 pm
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Tim, this is a unique image for Yellowstone, in part because park regulations typically prevent this type of close encounter. Obviously we all end up in situations where the animals approach closer than the park admins would like (yesterday's wolves, for example), and you made the most of this opportunity, IMO. Nicely done.

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by jwild on Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:55 am
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A great frame to announce your arrival !
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by stevebein on Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:48 am
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welcome, well done.
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by Morkel Erasmus on Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:05 pm
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Welcome here and what a fantastic image, my kind of animal-in-habitat shot! Love the sunset sky behind it...
Looking forward to more :D
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by jerryb on Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:10 pm
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Very good job getting it sky-lined with the nice sunset. Keep them coming!
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by Jamie Douglas on Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:22 pm
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Welcome Tim and glad you guys had some cool encounters. Fill flash worked a treat.

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:42 pm
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I love this shot. A small crop from the left and the top makes it compositionally better but it's a great shot.
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by Gary Briney on Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:27 pm
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Great pose, beautiful backlight -- love it!
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by LouBuonomo on Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:01 am
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Wow, some entrance !! Welcome and keep'em coming !
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by stevebein on Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:09 pm
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both are outstanding but the standing image is too centered. Try cropping from the left and see the improvement of composition and feel of the image. This one has it all, composition, the eye, it is the better one. .
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Welcome to NSN Tim. This is real nice.
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by spirocheta on Sat Jan 07, 2012 1:41 pm
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great shot, a little bit centered, but not is a problem.
if the coyote was very wild and uncontrolled is a great shot at this distance.
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by Neilef28 on Mon Jan 09, 2012 10:32 pm
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Really a sweet shot, Tim. The angle of looking up from below the hill toward the coyote and the sunset really make this image unqique. I also like the layer of conifers below on showing the rolling nature of the terrain. Just leave out the controlled component when admirers gaze at the framed image at the local camera club showing!
 

by RichardMittleman/Gon2Foto on Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:25 am
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Great looking image. Your tech data says you shot this at 15 mm so I assume it's a pretty big crop. Correct?
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by nikon_jeff on Sat Jan 21, 2012 1:56 pm
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The curled up shot has the best colors, but I'm partial to shots that focus on the animal, and not the environment, so I prefer this one. The "bulleye" composition doesn't bother me at all. Rule of thirds is fine, but you don't have to always adhere to it. The fill flash is dead-nuts spot on.

That coyote must have absolutely no fear of people to let you get that much of the frame filled with a 15 mm lens.

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