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Fishercap mooses!


Fishercap mooses!
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Copyright: Mike Basil (mbasil) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 352 W: 148 N: 716] (3130)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-09-01
Categories: Mammals, Mountain, Sky
Camera: Nikon D50, Sigma 10-20 EX DC HSM, Tiffen circular Polarizer
Exposure: f/11, 1/30 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-09-03 22:16
Viewed: 1074
Points: 24
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
In the Many Glacier section of Glacier National Park, just a short hike from the end of the road is Fishercap Lake, which is a haven for moose. I have seen them twice out of four trips. A couple days ago I came across the 3 posted here -- a mother and two calves. I promise to post some closer shots in the near future.

Just to show you how great a spot this is, the second shot I ever posted to TN was a shot of a bull moose taken at the same lake (visible here -- incorrectly attributed to being over the border in Canada, an error of about 5 miles).

Anyway, here is a post for Evelynn who keeps on promising Moose heaven and Moose ponds, but never shows me any moose! ;-)

There is some weird polarizing action in the sky (the lens is so wide the polarizing filter varies in strength across the wide angle. 'Cept I don't know what to do except dial it down, but I CAN'T! Is there a 12-step program for polarizing addicts?

PP: A noise filter, a bit of sensor dust cloned from the sky, a resize, frame and unsharp mask.
lovenature, horia, pablominto, carper, kojak, marhowie, aido, pierrefonds has marked this note useful
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Hi Mike
What a great capture of these moose cooling off in Fishercap Lake....did you bring a Laptop with you on your trip so you could post? The colours are warm and rich and the blue sky is amazing. A very pretty valley.
TFS Janice

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  • horia Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2138 W: 224 N: 3959] (13149)
  • [2006-09-04 0:57]

Hi Mike

Great shot of both the landscape and the animals :)
Splendid colors, excellent light, very good POV and DOF, all in all a splendid composition.
Very well done!

Bravo and TFS
Horia

Good morning Mike,
Very short on time this morning.
Nice capture, thanks for posting.
Have a great week.

Hi Mike,
Great colours!
Great moment!
Great image!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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  • Juyona Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 2108 W: 6 N: 2116] (13589)
  • [2006-09-04 4:52]

Hola Mike,
Un lujo tu foto, ahora en Canarias hay mucho calor, vientos de Africa muy calientes, tu paisaje es muy refrescante, y hermoso con una luz perfecta y fresca... saludos y felicidades.

very nice one Mike,
great landscape with mooses on it to, a good capture, nice composition and nice to look at, well done.
gr. jaap

Mike,

What an amazing view. Such a wide open place. Great colours and composition, may be better a touch darker, to pull in some detail on the right hand mountain...

The polarising effect you mention is caused by all number of things which you just have to either live with, throw money at and/or work hard on.
1. is the positon of the sun. Unless the sun is directly behind you (180 degrees) it will always be uneven becuase of the very nature of the filter and the way it affects the light rays - this may not be totally the problem here going by the direction of the shadows of the bison...
2. the filter not being totally in the correct angle (it could have been set 45 out on the rotation causing the darker corner... usually the one that gets me.
3 very wide angle lens. this is the throw money at one. apparently on wide angle lenses you need a massive filter that you just use the 'middle' of on wide angles, so say you were a 58mm thread, you would need something like a 100mm filter (very expensive) on a Cokin mount via thread adapters etc, so you only use the center on the filter - apparently - not tried this one, but remeber reading about it.

I'm guessing its a combination of 1 & 2 on this photo because of the graduations in the colour in the corner - it looks circular... hope that either helps or gets someone to contradict me for you and that way we can boht learn!

TFS
Emma

Hi Mike,
Great photo with excellent use of the extreem WA lens. I love the composition but feel that it is a tad too bright.

I have to ditto Emma all the way. When I bought my lens, I invested in two expensive filters (CP and UV) both were recommended to be used for WA lenses for the vignetting and the quality. Both are B&W.

TFS,
Niek

Great picture, Mike.
Wonderful scenery, great colours, nice composition and framework.
G.

Thanks Mike. I do like moose! And....I did post two shots of moose in addition to the two shots where moose should have been. : ) There is some strange polarizing going on here but the light on the lake is nice. I've read to just use a ND filter on a ultra wide lens and forget about using a polarizer????

Thanks again.

Evelynn : )

Hello Mike,
Great shot. Nice colors and detail..Well composed. I like the shear cliffs left and the moose moving through the shallow waters of this lake of course :)
Well done!

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  • aido Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1095 W: 169 N: 1218] (4046)
  • [2006-09-09 23:44]

Hello Mike,
I like this a lot, at 20mm this is just right I think, a wonderful wide-angle shot. Great composition to include the Moose and great framing. Perfect detail throughout and great exposure. And what a fantastic looking place too, just beautiful. Great shot.
Regards,
Adrian

Hi Mike,

A good POV of Fishercap lake, of the mountains and of the mooses, the photo has a good composition, DOF and nice colors. Thanks for sharing.

Pierre

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