Tundra caribou WC609 + repost

Good composition in a beautiful area. I'd be tempted to crop out that bit of sky, though. The colors seem a little off; too much cyan perhaps?

Love all the shades and layers of color in that landscape! Nice comp but agree with Ronald about eliminating the piece of sky. Not sure how all your processing affected this image, but something feels a bit odd. It has the look of a separate B&W picture of a caribou being pasted onto the colored landscape image. He did pose very nicely for you!

Ronald and Carolyn, thanks for your comments. I went back and took another look at this photo. I had assumed the lack of color in the caribou was due to it being a scan from a negative. Adjusted the color just for the caribou and was able to bring some color up and have posted a re-post which is also cropped as you suggested. I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick!

The repost is a big improvement, John. Getting rid of that tiny slice of sky makes the composition much stronger.

I'd be tempted to boost the saturation just a bit more, and maybe add a little more contrast too. That would really make all those lovely colors pop. He posed very nicely for you! DNP is on my bucket list. Maybe someday...

The caribou in the repost looks better, John, and the colors in the landscape look more in keeping with the colors in the caribou. Your crop also looks good but I wouldn't have minded seeing more of the landscape retained even while eliminating that bit of sky.

It sounds fortunate that you were able to have the opportunity with this individual caribou, and I'm glad you re-worked this John, the repost is definitely a good improvement. Think I agree with Carolyn that perhaps a little bit more of the landscape could have been retained, but that's a personal preference. Thanks for sharing

Ah yes, I remember it well; wishing I had different film loaded. But getting a shot like this with any film is still a treat.
The caribou looks better in the repost, but I really miss all that great habitat. I would cut out as little as possible. Nice catch!

I like the pose, positioning, and the colors in the original. It's well done as presented and feels right in the sense of creating a feeling of large distances. It is fascinating to me how the caribou looks like it was added in to the original post. It blends in much better in the repost, but as noted by others, the background colors in the original are much nicer. I wonder if it's a sharpening (over sharpening) issue in the original as even the larger version looks "crunchy" in the vegetation between the caribou and the bottom frame. Having wrestled with scanning quite a few slides, I know how hard it is to get scanned colors "right" and that's with a slide to compare to.

Thank you for all of the comments and suggestions. This is not a composite photograph, the caribou is not added to the scene, it just looks that way. The film I used was an 800 asa film, there is no brand name on the negatives but it was either Fuji or Kodak. I do not know why the caribou in this set of photos looks like it was added, it certainly lacks color, which I thought was due to the scan. I do know I was pleased to finally be able to get some close shots of a caribou, but disappointed that I got off of the bus so quickly I failed to bring slide film, or more appropriate negative film with me. Still, one of my favorite shots of the trip. Trip was a Joe Van Os photo safari to Denali, which was great, good weather all the time except for the day we left Denali, and saw a lynx on the way out, too dark and rainy for photos.