Conspicuous

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 16, 20111,000 views19 comments

A young Dall Sheep stands out amidst spectacular fall scenery on the north side of the alaska range. The big guys with the big curls had little clue on how to pose, thankfully this youngster came to the rescue.

Close to full frame, lost a few pixels to rotation. Overexposed the brightly lit mountain top and had to darken it in post processing.

Denali Natl Park, Alaska
Nikon D5000, 70-300 @ 70mm, f9, 1/125, iso 400, -1/3 ev.

Anand

Comments

19 comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on November 16, 2011 at 4:27 PM

Beautiful setting, Anand, with the bonus of a perfectly placed Dall ram!

I can see no nits as posted, but I might experiment a little with some contrast tweaks to the middle background and a sliver of a bottom crop, just enough to remove the closest line of foreground layer. Nice work.

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Comment posted by John Tobias on November 16, 2011 at 7:59 PM

this photo shouts Alaska! Well done, thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Ajit Huilgol on November 16, 2011 at 9:23 PM

Beautiful image, Anand! The larger photo is just superb!

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on November 16, 2011 at 11:04 PM

Anand, this is spectacular! What a gorgeous landscape with amazing colors. The sheep is a bonus

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Comment posted by Oscar Benavides on November 17, 2011 at 8:22 AM

Nice image. Even without the sheep it would be a very nice landscape image, it improves a lot with the sheep . Well done Anand.

Oscar

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Comment posted by Carol Nichols on November 17, 2011 at 11:51 AM

Anand, I am such a fan of your Alaska photos. What a great photographic experience you must have had up there! This photo is no exception. I love all of the layers in this image - the gold and red layers in the foreground and then the brown and snowcapped mountains in the background. The sheep really puts the image over the top.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on November 17, 2011 at 4:49 PM

This series of yours is awesome Anand!
This one is chock full of exquisite detail, super soft lighting, great colours and a lovely composition.

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on November 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM

Thanks a ton for all the kind words !! Really appreciate it. The late fall colours were so spectacular, all i had to do was find some wildlife.

@ Bill, Wish i had an epic story to tell. It was the first evening of a short 3 day trip during the long weekend in the first week of september. This was near the polychrome pass area just above a popular lookout. There is usually a herd of rams that hang around here. On finding a few grazing and lounging in this area, I moved quickly and quietly to a position to include as much of the landscape. They gave me a few poses before dispersing. It was getting late and I had overnight camping permits for a different area and had to leave.

@lon, I did think about a slight crop, but like the yellows in the bottom left too much

Thank you all once again

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Comment posted by Guy Runco on November 17, 2011 at 9:37 PM

Nice shot Anand - I think you could get away with boosting the contrast and saturation a bit, nice as presented though.

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Comment posted by Dan Walters on November 20, 2011 at 9:48 PM

Beautiful image. Like the dramatic mountains in the background and the warm colors of the vegetation in the foreground.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on November 21, 2011 at 3:22 PM

An incredibly beautiful autumn scene Anand

You had a great vision for this photo.

Ken Archer

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on November 23, 2011 at 12:28 AM

Love everything about this one Anand. Perfectly positioned sheep in this stunning landscape. Love the way the colors get progressively more muted as they recede into the background, like a fine painting.

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Comment posted by Butch Lama on November 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM

Awesome.... This is spectacularly beautiful Anand. The setting itself is so gorgeous but the Sheep is a BIG bonus here.

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Comment posted by Jagdeep Rajput on November 23, 2011 at 11:41 AM

Great setting & sheep is very well placed in the frame !
Congrats on EP !
Jagdeep Rajput

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Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on November 23, 2011 at 4:41 PM

Very nice shot. I like the perfect balance between the sheep and the surrounding.

Congrats

D&L

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Comment posted by Soubhik Patranabis on November 23, 2011 at 5:14 PM

Nice one Anand - congrats on the EP.

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Comment posted by Anand Narayanan on November 24, 2011 at 2:57 PM

Yipee

thank you all for the generous compliments

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on November 25, 2011 at 8:48 AM

Congrats Anand, great image!

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on November 25, 2011 at 9:12 PM

Congrats on the EP! very nice work..
Sandy

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