Prairie Buddies

Gallery: WildlifePosted September 4, 2013108 views6 comments

Hi again, Everyone! This is a picture from our epic 5wk road trip this spring. We got to Theodore Roosevelt NP in North Dakota right after a spring snowstorm, so we weren't able to drive around as much as we had hoped. But we did find a few very busy colonies of prarie dogs, and it was fun trying to photograph them.

This was my favourite picture because they are so adorable together!

This is another picture taken with my new Nikon V1 with the AF-S 300mm f/4 lens on it. It's almost full-frame width, but I liked the more panoramic format for this picture.

Thank you for looking and commenting!

Nikon 1 V1
AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 IF-ED lens
ISO 100
1/1600sec @ f/5.6
On beanbag from truck window

Dad's Processing Notes:
Converted from RAW using Phase One Capture One Pro 7
Minimal adjustments to tone and contrast using Nik Viveza 2 and Color Efex Pro 4 in PS5
Cloned a distracting OOF branch from LRC
NOTE: I am really impressed with the dynamic range on Marlise's RAW files from the little V1...never mind the detail it held in the snow!

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Jenaya Launstein on September 4, 2013 at 7:02 PM

Adorable! I like how the guy on the left is almost snuggling into the other one! Also really good comp. Nice little V1 you got there, eh?

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on September 5, 2013 at 7:51 AM

Prairie Dogs are fun to photograph and you did a fine job with these two. Nice detail, color and composition. Unfortunately for prairie dogs, they are considered pests in much of the west and many just want to exterminate them. Theodore Roosevelt NP is one of my favorite out of the way NP to visit, to bad that you did not get to explore it very much.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on September 5, 2013 at 5:32 PM

Very cute Marlise. I like how they pop up in the dirt mound amid the white snow.

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Comment posted by Morkel Erasmus on September 5, 2013 at 5:34 PM

Very cute Marlise. I like how they pop up in the dirt mound amid the white snow.

Registered on March 22, 2011, 385 Posts, 2068 Comments

Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on September 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM

Very cute indeed Marlise. The diagonal line helps the overall composition here a lot to make the image more dynamic as does the pano crop, which suits this well. Excellent detail throughout as well.

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on September 7, 2013 at 11:55 PM

Lovely little composition of these cuties, the melting snow and brown earth give a great sense of season and are nice to see!

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