Mountain Goat/Repost
by Randy Runtsch
My family were delighted to be greeted by a large herd of mountain goats as we approached the peak of Mount Evans in Colorado. There were more kids than adults, and I was able to capture dozens of photos.
This photo was taken with a Pentax K-5 and DA 55-300 at 190mm, 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, iso 100. The rings in the blue sky don't appear in the full-size image as they do in this 280K version.
Does anyone have any suggestions for cropping (currently un-cropped) or processing in LR4?
Comments
2 commentsThose rings in the sky are an artefact of JPEG compression. I'm kinda surprised they appeared here as a 280k file size for a 720 pixel wide image is normally ample to smoothly portray continuous tones and hues...
Given your original here already cut off a large part of the goat about all you have left here for cropping is to perhaps go to a vertical portrait. So that's something you might want to try.
I don't use LR for processing so can't give you any LR-specific tips, but one thing I'd experiment with in processing this shot would be to bring back a little of the shadow detail - in both the nostril and eye region. Without seeing the raw file I can't say if that would be successful or not, but I do think having that detail (especially if you go for a tighter-cropped portrait) would likely improve the shot.
Cheers...hope this helps...
Brad
I was unable to figure out how to avoid the rings in the blue sky of the small JPEG image.