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Ned Ali
{K:11928} 11/20/2004
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great shot!
excellent focus and dof.
well .. it would have been mush better if you showed the cigarette .. lol .. just a joke :))
excelent work .. keep it up, Steve.
ned
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Lee Harris
{K:14694} 11/20/2004
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Steve this is awesome........
I love the background and seeing his breath...it's breath taking.
What a beautiful Bull Moose.
This image really does inspire me as I have a image in my mind that I have been working very hard to find...A Bull Moose, large one like this, standing in front of pine trees with the ground covered with snow and his breath showing like this image.
Now that we have snow I have been driving to a area with moose about 150 miles away and searching for this image...I will get it ! maybe not this year maybe not next...but I will get it.
Thank you for sharing this image and the inspiration you have unknowingly gave me.
My Complements.
Lee
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Bill Morgenstern
{K:7157} 4/19/2004
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Bang on. I live where there are lots of moose and have not seen one as wel done as this. Here they are hunted hard so best time is early in the rut when they are crazy. Come on up to NW Ontario and lets go looking.
Cheers - Bill
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Kees and Carolyn
{K:15193} 4/18/2004
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Beautiful moose photo! Excellent lighting! Good clarity! Nice sharp looking rack. Excellent capture!
Carolyn
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Mr. Arrey
{K:11516} 12/1/2003
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nice wildlife picture.
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Steve Kaufman
{K:2748} 12/1/2003
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To Sarah and Bjorn, and others interested: Moose can be difficult to photograph. First, they have very dark bodies, and their antlers can be almost white. In bright sunlight, with slide film, there can be too much latitude (bright and dark) to get a good photo. I have countless photos of moose that are overexposed on the antlers; or if you expose for the antlers, the body is too dark. Secondly, moose are very large animals, and typically they are in tall brush or in trees. If you get close enough to see the entire animal, you may be too close for safety. So, the solution is to go to a location where moose are more visible. Denali National Park is such an area, and in the autumn, when rutting activity (mating season) begins, bulls gather in an area around mile 6-8 of the park road. At dawn they are usually most active, and photos like this are taken from the roadside (The NPS restricts walking off the road during the "moose season" so all photography must be made from the roadside). The keys to good wildlife photography are 1) location (find the best location for your subject) 2) good equipment and the knowledge to use it quickly and efficiently 3) patience (sometimes I'll spend weeks in one location making sure I get the best photos)
Over the years I've been given assignments to photograph wildlife in specific locations. I had one assignment to do a chapter of a book on wildilfe refuges. They wanted photos of Dall Sheep in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. I called the editor and asked if I might stretch the boundary of the refuge to photograph sheep in a location just a few miles off the refuge in an area protected from hunting. The answer was NO. Instead, I flew into a remote lake, and spent 10 days shooting just 3 rolls of film. Where I was, hunting was legal, and the sheep were exceedingly shy. I did finally succeed in getting a few nice photos, but it wasn't easy. I could have easily shot 10 rolls of film in one day on the sheep in that area protected from hunting; and if I shoot on my own (not on a specific assignment) that's the place I'd photograph, not the remote lake.
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Bjorn Beheydt
{K:12096} 12/1/2003
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Great picture, very good detail in it. Simply wonderful. I can only agree with Sarah, teach us how to become this good ;-)
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SarahM none
{K:7836} 11/30/2003
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Steve, your work is quite simply beautiful, but as a professional, I am sure you hear this quite often. The sharpness of the details in this (and other shots) is wonderful. I love the background colors. They add so much without being distrating. The catch light in his eye is another great detail. Any additional information you could share about these types of shots would be very valuable to us beginners.
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Bostjan Sagadin
{K:252} 11/29/2003
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Amazing shot. I like this moment, couse you can see his breath.
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Grigoriy Linshits
{K:373} 11/28/2003
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Good Shot.
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Dubravko Grakalic
{K:25235} 11/28/2003
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perfect profi-work!!
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Lora Medina - Pechy
{K:654} 11/28/2003
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Great Capture.
Like this alot!
Good work.
Lora
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