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Seaside Cows
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Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 300mm f/4.0L IS USM
Date Uploaded: Apr 2, 2005

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 11/05/2005 07:08:44 PM
Originally posted by olddj:
...even cow in front has right ear oof and that is so true of the (what appears to be) yearling calf in the background

That was the point of the shot. I wanted to place emphasis on the cow in the foreground. Having a deeper DOF would have made the 2 cows in focus and the eyes would have constantly been travelling between the two. My intention was to emphasize the front cow's facial pattern.

Originally posted by olddj:
...only thing I can think of with this one is to crop it down to show just the face of the front cow, maybe without its right ear even...

Thanks for the suggestion, but I really think that such a crop would have made for a pretty ho-hum composition. I think I like this composition better.

Thanks for reviewing my image.
 11/05/2005 06:59:44 PM
Originally posted by Jammur:
"Look,Dave! Cows!"
Afraid your cows are lost at sea, you have really lost too much detail in the shadows, because your exposure was set for the bright relections. Fill flash might have helped


Thanks for the suggestion, but I doubt fill flash would have helped since I was working at 300mm on a very bright winter's afternoon.
 11/05/2005 06:39:18 PM
Well, afraid I am going to sound like a broken record, but background too distracting, lighting was off, even cow in front has right ear oof and that is so true of the (what appears to be) yearling calf in the background. Sorry, only thing I can think of with this one is to crop it down to show just the face of the front cow, maybe without its right ear even, wish I could come up with something else.

Jacque
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 11/05/2005 05:16:07 PM
"Look,Dave! Cows!"
Afraid your cows are lost at sea, you have really lost too much detail in the shadows, because your exposure was set for the bright relections. Fill flash might have helped
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 11/05/2005 04:12:35 PM
Love the black and white face. I like that the other one is kind of blurred and not the focal point.
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 11/05/2005 03:47:56 PM
This is similar to Rikki11's black cat. It's very difficult to meter solid black subjects. You have a double whammy with the bright reflecting water in the background. To get more details in the cows you probably have to blowout the background. Maybe if you changed perspective, so the background is closer to the cow in tones. That or you'll really have read up on metering for this type of exposure.
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 04/02/2005 05:10:14 PM
Originally posted by skiprow:
that's a very, uhm, 'interesting' bokeh effect ya got going on that background cow ;-)


The joy of working with my badass 300mm f4 IS!
 04/02/2005 03:44:28 PM
that's a very, uhm, 'interesting' bokeh effect ya got going on that background cow ;-)
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