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Hello Everyone! I hope you don't mind the new guy chiming in right away, but I'm really excited to start collaborating with you all!
Thorro, I find this image really captivating; not only because you were able to track a creature whose coloration seems perfectly adapted to this environment but also because you were able to get such a sharp shot hand-holding at 300mm.
I agree with Steve that I'm curious to know what it is hunting and where it is going, so if it was possible to include that in the frame I would try to include it, but a lone hunter on its own is also interesting to me. One thing that I really like is all the horizontal lines in the tones of the grasses. That gives it an almost "graphic" feel that works well with how the focus falls off with distance.
I hope you don't mind, but I also took a stab at editing the image in Lightroom. I chose to emphasize the horizontal graphic nature with a 16x9 crop and a little angular adjustment to make all the lines as flat as possible. I cropped in on the image with the coyote anchoring the lower-left of the frame and the stump (?) anchoring the upper-right. When I view the image my eyes first go to the coyote, then to the tiny evergreen, and then up to the stump before returning to the coyote. I love when an image pulls me in like that and I find myself going back-and-forth between different features.
For me, the tones and texture in the image are an important secondary element to the coyote so I tried to emphasize the contrast by lowering the exposure a little (-0.3) and boosting the contrast (+20). I also added a little Clarity (+10), which I think of as kind of another contrast adjustment. Lastly, I reduced the saturation a touch (-15) to try to pull down the yellow tone a bit.
I'm curious to know what you think.
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