2111_2268 Fourteen Pronghorn on a Frosty Morning
A single Pronghorn would look lost in that open space, but fortunately they are herd animals, and fourteen of them filled the space nicely. With this offering I am shifting from close up work to deal with the problem of what to do when you can't get close.
Strategy number one: include more than one critter in the frame. Not always possible, of course, but in this case it was.
I shot this about a year ago on a cold, frosty morning. I was tempted to reduce the blue cast in processing, and lighten it overall, but why try to create a midday effect? For accuracy, I left it cool-toned, a little dark, and less contrasty than midday lighting would have produced. This is how I remember the moment. Shot from the rolling red Toyota blind.
Three more to come, all situations where I wasn't as close to my subject(s) as I would have liked but came away with shots worth keeping in my files.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
2111_2268 Fourteen Pronghorn on a Frosty Morning
A single Pronghorn would look lost in that open space, but fortunately they are herd animals, and fourteen of them filled the space nicely. With this offering I am shifting from close up work to deal with the problem of what to do when you can't get close.
Strategy number one: include more than one critter in the frame. Not always possible, of course, but in this case it was.
I shot this about a year ago on a cold, frosty morning. I was tempted to reduce the blue cast in processing, and lighten it overall, but why try to create a midday effect? For accuracy, I left it cool-toned, a little dark, and less contrasty than midday lighting would have produced. This is how I remember the moment. Shot from the rolling red Toyota blind.
Three more to come, all situations where I wasn't as close to my subject(s) as I would have liked but came away with shots worth keeping in my files.
Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2021 James R. Page - all rights reserved.