Chocolate Moose

Chocolate moose - not. LOL. The original chocolate moose is at Len Libbie's Candy on rt. 1 in Scarborough, Maine. He's life size and made of solid chocolate. There is also a black bear family. Have your dad take you to Maine for some photography as there's some great stuff there. Some really big ones but because Maine is mostly forested they are not as readily seen. However, this guy is quite handsome and it will be nice to see how you process it. I'd recommend adding a bit of landscape on the bottom for his feet.

A wonderful image, you handled everything very well from exposure to comp. Absolutely love the twigs of grass sticking out of his mouth. Great job!

There is plenty of room top and to the sides, but you have cut off his virtual feet. Adding to the bottom is tricky, but that is one of the things you have to do to make this work, and it can be done. This is one of the problems with primes and tall animals.

Ashleigh,
Beautiful light and the blacks look real
As Philip noted it needs a little more at the bottom relatively easy to do

Ashleigh must be good to get up close to these magnificent beasts, your image looks spot on to me, very well done.

Keith.

A beautiful portrait of this handsome fellow Ashleigh Excellent sharpness and perfect color tones. Looks like a different bull then the one I saw there in early October.

Hi Ashleigh,

I like the dark tones on the moose and, despite the harsh lighting, I think you pretty much nailed the techs (exposure, sharpness, etc.). That being said the palmate portion (the flat part) of the left antler looks a tad hot and toning that down a little.

While I personally don't think cutting off the virtual feet here is much of an issue at all (the feet are obscured anyway...), I do find the image pretty tight all-round and static (as you pointed out). Personally I avoid frame-filling shots like this because of two reasons - first is that the biggest challenge is just getting the subject completely in the frame (and thus the "virtual feet" comments) and - second - because it leaves the photographer with virtually no creative options at all (and becomes simply a documentary shot). I love shooting with big primes, but they do have their drawbacks!

Hope this makes sense - really looking forward to seeing more of your moose shots...

Cheers...

Brad

That's a big boy! Good image of him too. I think you chose a good crop, and there is definitely enough room on top, IMO. I would love to see how it looks with more room on the right side of the frame.

This is a really impressive animal and your image with the tight crop shows that and the detail very well. The depth of field looks perfect, I guess ideally you would have composed it with the bull a little further left in the frame so you didn't have to crop and would have a bit more room on the right. Photo editors like to have a bit of space to work with. Excellent capture.