Spring baby, Alaska style

[IPT]

Been here for 8 years now. Last year was the first time I saw baby moose for long enough to actually get some photographs. This year was even better as a mom and new born calf were in the neighborhood for a few days. They are so dang cute!!

Got Milk??

Family portrait

 

[Recty]

Just one? Wow, that's pretty unusual, normally it's twins.

Nice pictures

 

[IPT]

strange right? What I hear is usually if you only see one it's because the other got nabbed by a bear. A few years ago I actually saw triplets! I'm not sure, but this one was awefully wobbly so it couldn't have been more than 1 or 2 days old. Either she only had one or the other got poached pretty quickly! They were actually passing thru the neighborhood again this AM but dang it, once again work got in the way of my photography!

 

[Recty]

Yep, I've seen triplets quite a few times. I've seen more moose in Homer in one year than I've seen yet since I moved to Anchorage. There are tons of moose down there (I saw 28 between Soldotna and Homer last weekend on the way down) and I wish I had my camera growing up, I could have gotten some amazing shots Oh well.

 

[Rhizo]

#3 almost looks like they are smiling

 

[IPT]

I don't know if they were, but I sure was... .

Nap time:

 

[Recty]

Wow, that's the first moose with blue highlights I've ever seen I wonder how much it paid to get that done?

 

[IPT]

LOL - yeah, dude, I am having calibration issues. Is it that bad? I recently used the Spyder3 Elite and I swear it made things worse. Course I didn't soft proof it either .

 

[IPT]

how's this?

Oh, and BTW, this moose travels in a tight circle so I would not be suprised if she would have been willing to shell out a few hundred clams or more for those blue highlights!! Moose are a dime a dozen up here....she'd probably do about anything to be different .

 

[Recty]

Heh, that one looks a lot more true to life, imo. But it doesnt really matter, you're free to reproduce your photograph however you want

In the first one, the front right leg, the left ear, some spots on the face and through the mane have blue in them, it just looked a little too off to me Besides the calf looked like someone rubbed him with some brown shoe polish :spin1:

 

[IPT]

LOL - yeah, he was hard to hold still while I was rubbing him down! Funny, on my work computer the new one looks total desaturated and the first over saturated. Probably somewhere between the two. What is that old saying, there are three sides to every story...his version, her version, and the truth!

 

[IPT]

yeah, there, that's better. I think I got it this time....

 

[Recty]

That's pretty sweet

For what it's worth, both here at work and at home my monitors display the original picture the same, both of them show it over saturated and blue. I havent calibrated either of them, so I'm just at defaults.

I dont have Photoshop at work so sadly I had to use Microsoft Paint... but I've seen a lot of moose in my time and this looks pretty true to life, imo.

 

[IPT]

yeah, my monitor at home has always been undersaturated so I usually have to give the images a boost. Since the calibration my workflow is all wacked. Once I soft proofed in PS it changed a lot so maybe that calibration (if I actually use the profiles ) really did work.

LOL - nice job - I guess being that she is sporting a blue Mohawk there is a good chance she was probably wired on Redbull too. Being the calf is newborn I'm sure it's in his system too. If that's the case then the eye diameters and constricted pupils look about right .

 

[Haddonisreef]

I have a email of a set of twin albino moose if you would like to see it send me email and ill foreward it! The pics above are awsome! Beautiful animals!

 

[IPT]

been so busy haven't had enought time to sort them. One more...strange though. Looks totally flat and bland with the soft proff than saturated in the save for web preview. Ugh, what is it looking like on your end Recty?

 

[Recty]

That looks pretty normal to me, the moose is the right shade and the grass is all nice and green but not super saturated like in the blue moose picture.

I think it looks about perfect, except for the distracting blur in the front right

 

[IPT]

LOL - blur, what blur? You smoking some of the Matanuska Thunder or what??
Ha, yeah, I was gonna crop it out but felt it left it too tight for my liking. Don't worry, I have other images without the blur . One of my favs is of him going under the tree branch with it basically sitting on his head and him looking all confused .

Truth is with all the photos poached from online venues I don't post the best of the best that often. Sometimes I just keep those for my personal viewing or marketing/advertising the office. Really dep
ends on the image.

Here's a quick fix for you .

 

[Recty]

Wow, you did a very good job of removing that blur. Very nice.

That's funny, I dont post some of my best pictures online either for the same reason... I'm sure most people are like that. Some of my best eagle pictures that I've sold and made some money on I refrained from posting on these boards even though I really would have liked to share them.