Bighorn Sheep

RxRickRxRick Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
edited July 14, 2010 in Wildlife
We were water skiing at Lake Havasu last week when we spotted this guy on the ridge. He came down for a drink and didn't seem the slightest bit bothered by our boat. It was dumb luck that I had my 70-200 f2.8 with me.

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--RxRick
--Long Beach, CA

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  • bgarlandbgarland Registered Users Posts: 761 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    Wow, excellent shots. You don't get too many opportunities to see these big horn sheep. Nice.
    Brad

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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    What a great opportunity!!

    If I may offer a suggestion, the first photo is exposed pretty well, but most of the others are overexposed just a bitand thus you loose some detail. You may be able to correct this with photo editing. I would give it a try and I think your good pictures will be even better.

    Ron
    "The question is not what you look at, but what you see". Henry David Thoreau

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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    Fantastic capture and set clap.gifclap Congrats!
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  • RxRickRxRick Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    ront wrote: »
    What a great opportunity!!

    If I may offer a suggestion, the first photo is exposed pretty well, but most of the others are overexposed just a bitand thus you loose some detail. You may be able to correct this with photo editing. I would give it a try and I think your good pictures will be even better.

    Ron

    Thanks for the input and I agree with you completely. The sun is so bright there it's hard not to get overexposed. I did take a few "bracketed" shots (in RAW) so I'll take another look at those to see if I can use the underexposed shots from the group.

    Thanks again.

    --RxRick
  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    RxRick, what are you using for your photo editing program?

    Thanks, Ron
    RxRick wrote: »
    Thanks for the input and I agree with you completely. The sun is so bright there it's hard not to get overexposed. I did take a few "bracketed" shots (in RAW) so I'll take another look at those to see if I can use the underexposed shots from the group.

    Thanks again.

    --RxRick
    "The question is not what you look at, but what you see". Henry David Thoreau

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  • RxRickRxRick Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    ront wrote: »
    RxRick, what are you using for your photo editing program?

    Thanks, Ron

    The Camera RAW plug in for RAW files and PS Elements.

    --RxRick
  • RxRickRxRick Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    ront wrote: »
    What a great opportunity!!

    If I may offer a suggestion, the first photo is exposed pretty well, but most of the others are overexposed...

    Ron

    I tried a couple of things. See what you think...

    Before-

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    After

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    Before

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    After

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    Before

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    After

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    And a last before

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    And after

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    I've been staring at them too long now and I can't tell if there's any improvement.

    --RxRick
  • scottcolbathscottcolbath Registered Users Posts: 278 Major grins
    edited July 13, 2010
    Nice job Rick. You pulled out lots more detail.

    BTW, the reason the sheep don't mind you being so close is because you had a boat load (literally) of fine looking women for the sheep to enjoy. :D

    BTW, since you are an Apple guy, you should try Aperture 3. deal.gif

    S.C.
  • RxRickRxRick Registered Users Posts: 93 Big grins
    edited July 14, 2010
    scottcolbath wrote: »
    Nice job Rick. You pulled out lots more detail.

    BTW, the reason the sheep don't mind you being so close is because you had a boat load (literally) of fine looking women for the sheep to enjoy. :D

    BTW, since you are an Apple guy, you should try Aperture 3. deal.gif

    S.C.

    Thanks Scott. Looking at them fresh this morning I can see the difference, especially for the last two.

    And yes, hanging out with my nieces in bikinis does not suck.

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    --Rick
  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2010
    scottcolbath wrote: »
    Nice job Rick. You pulled out lots more detail.

    BTW, the reason the sheep don't mind you being so close is because you had a boat load (literally) of fine looking women for the sheep to enjoy. :D

    BTW, since you are an Apple guy, you should try Aperture 3. deal.gif

    S.C.

    +1 on A3 deal.gif
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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2010
    Sorry for the late reply Rick.

    IMHO the second attempt looks much better!

    Ron
    "The question is not what you look at, but what you see". Henry David Thoreau

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  • BeardedChickBeardedChick Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2010
    Geeze, great sighting on that guy! And it's nice to see one looking so fat and healthy when the land looks dry and barren.
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