Alaska Bull Moose

Excellent Linda... Great subject, relaxed pose and nice fall background..

Beautiful portrait. You were pretty close if this was at 90mm. I love the colors.

Nice one Linda. That is one big moose..very nice placement in the frame and exposure looks right on the money. Hard to tell if he is lieing down or standing which is kind of cool too.

NDCheryl wrote:Beautiful portrait. You were pretty close if this was at 90mm. I love the colors.

Yes, Cheryl the moose in this particular area are pretty habituated to people so they are pretty laid back. I remember inching my way a bit closer to the moose and then turning around and asking Tim if I was still at a safe distance. He assured me that the moose was not paying too much attention to us and I was fine. Eventually, this guy got tired of posing for us and got up and lumbered off in the direction of another bull moose of about the same size. We were hoping that perhaps we would get some photos of them jousting, but they decided to get behind an evergreen. I could hear the clacking sound of their antlers, but never got a clear shot.

Wow, now that is a serious rack - one of the better bull moose shots I've seen!

Don't be fooled by the laid back nature of Moose, I got charged by a laid back moose in Alaska

Nice shot Linda! Pretty impressive specimen and lovely fall colours - and as close as you would want to be by the sound of it!!

Nice shot Linda. Way to hold your nerve

very nice shot Linda. I think it could use a bit more USM.
Could I ask you why is this a 85% of the full frame? If you were at 90mm you certainly had the chance to zoom in more with the 70-200.

Daniel M. wrote:very nice shot Linda. I think it could use a bit more USM.
Could I ask you why is this a 85% of the full frame? If you were at 90mm you certainly had the chance to zoom in more with the 70-200.

Daniel, the crop from the right side, and this is probably closer to 90% of the frame, was done because that side was "weak" and with only a bit of the moose showing above the tall foliage. I tend shoot a bit wide because I started out shooting print film where the print was always cropped some. Old habits take a long time to break.

Nicely done Linda. The comp and colors are great. That was a fun evening!

I just got my slides back and lost most of the detail in right antler despite under exposing by 1/3.

Tim Grams wrote:Nicely done Linda. The comp and colors are great. That was a fun evening!

I just got my slides back and lost most of the detail in right antler despite under exposing by 1/3.

That was indeed a fun evening and quite an experience for me. I know what you mean about the difficulty of getting detail in that antler. I had my camera set at 1/2 under and still had to do a bit of detail recovery on it. That is the one thing that I do like about shooting RAW files with my D60, is that it seems that the camera does record most of the detail and a little bit of PS "magic" can bring it out, most of the time. I do also have some shots from that evening where I am not sure that I can recover the antler detail.