Coyote in the Fog: I'd like to keep the mystery of the scene, but wondering what you might do to improve? Canon T3i, 250 mm (kit lens 55-250), f/14, ISO 3200, 1/4000 sec. This is...

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

I'd like to keep the mystery of the scene, but wondering what you might do to improve?

Canon T3i, 250 mm (kit lens 55-250), f/14, ISO 3200, 1/4000 sec. This is cropped quite a bit, but I no longer have the original.

Thanks for any suggestions and please post your examples, if you're so inclined.

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

I like this and wouldn't change a thing. You captured this wary (wily?) coyote very well. The mood and soft color really suits the scene.

Art Grandpa Loc: Washougal, WA

The empty space at the top makes it feel very unbalanced and there's not a lot of contrast to give texture. Is this a crop of a larger image? It seems to be quite noisy.

Nightski

Linda From Maine wrote:

I'd like to keep the mystery of the scene, but wondering what you might do to improve?

Canon T3i, 250 mm (kit lens 55-250), f/14, ISO 3200, 1/4000 sec. This is cropped quite a bit, but I no longer have the original.

Thanks for any suggestions and please post your examples, if you're so inclined.

I love the image. How lucky to get a fox in the fog. Where were you?

I think your biggest problem here is noise. When i get home, I may be able to clean that up in lightroom. I've gotten better at that function lately. I would crop out a bunch of that sky.

Singing Swan

I tried a crop with a little less sky and took out the worst of the tangled stump, but it seemed to loose distance and mystery when I did, so, I think I have to agree. Unless you wanted to sharpen and bring out more detail then it's good just like it is.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Heirloom Tomato wrote:

I like this and wouldn't change a thing. You captured this wary (wily?) coyote very well. The mood and soft color really suits the scene.

Thanks Hope!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Art Grandpa wrote:

The empty space at the top makes it feel very unbalanced and there's not a lot of contrast to give texture. Is this a crop of a larger image? It seems to be quite noisy.

I set my 12-megapixel camera at 3:2 ratio, which appears to be 5184x3456. This a crop at 3251x2323. I'm sure the ISO of 3200 in low light doesn't help the noise issue :)

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

May feelings, the coyot should be a little more visible, I have taken the new rules in hand and made the modification to show what I'm talking about. Hope you like it somewhat. I didn't do a noise reduction.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Nightski wrote:

I love the image. How lucky to get a fox in the fog. Where were you?

I think your biggest problem here is noise. When i get home, I may be able to clean that up in lightroom. I've gotten better at that function lately. I would crop out a bunch of that sky.

Thanks, Sandra - but pretty sure it's a coyote :) Of course I have already gone 'round the fox vs. coyote "controversy" in another topic! Have seen many coyotes in Yakima outskirts, which is where this was taken.

Art Grandpa Loc: Washougal, WA

Bill, that looks like the coyote was comp'd in. And not in a good way.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Singing Swan wrote:

I tried a crop with a little less sky and took out the worst of the tangled stump, but it seemed to loose distance and mystery when I did, so, I think I have to agree. Unless you wanted to sharpen and bring out more detail then it's good just like it is.

Thanks for trying out your ideas. I do think I'd prefer not to sharpen.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Bill Houghton wrote:

May feelings, the coyot should be a little more visible, I have taken the new rules in hand and made the modification to show what I'm talking about. Hope you like it somewhat. I didn't do a noise reduction.

Appreciate your efforts, Bill, but I do prefer the bit of mystery in not being able to see the animal - fox, per Nightski :) - very clearly.

Musket Loc: ArtBallin'

Linda From Maine wrote:

I'd like to keep the mystery of the scene, but wondering what you might do to improve?

Canon T3i, 250 mm (kit lens 55-250), f/14, ISO 3200, 1/4000 sec. This is cropped quite a bit, but I no longer have the original.

Thanks for any suggestions and please post your examples, if you're so inclined.

The image itself is nice but is also held back by:

Noise. You have set to iso 3200 and f/14 at 1/4000th. This is almost overkill.

You could have shot at f5.6 and had just as much if not more DoF as you do at f14. Meaning you could have lowered your ISO and Shutter speed for less noise with the same result. The fog would have hid the dof increase at 5.6 anyways and gave you the same shot, with much less noise and at a much forgiving ISO.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

Heirloom Tomato Loc: Oregon

Linda From Maine wrote:

Thanks for trying out your ideas. I do think I'd prefer not to sharpen.

I vote to keep the sky as it is. The large sky area adds to the feeling of foggy, lonely space. The image is a little noisy, but in this case I don't think it looks bad. ISO's were probably very high. Noise happens. :-P

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Musket wrote:

The image itself is nice but is also held back by:

Noise. You have set to iso 3200 and f/14 at 1/4000th. This is almost overkill.

You could have shot at f5.6 and had just as much if not more DoF as you do at f14. Meaning you could have lowered your ISO and Shutter speed for less noise with the same result.

http://www.dofmaster.com/dofjs.html

Thanks Musket. I actually only had about 15 seconds of shooting time (got 3 shots) from when I saw it 'til it disappeared over the ridge, and that's only because it stopped to look at me a couple of times :)

I was surprised just now to see that I had the ISO on 3200. I think I must have been in darker conditions a few minutes prior to happening onto this scene. Usually I don't even try to take photographs if that high an ISO is called for.

Different colors and several other Picasa edits.