Bobcat in the snow

[mbrassette]

Took this photo early in the morning yesterday.

Model - KODAK Z612 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
ExposureTime - 1/250 seconds
ISOSpeedRatings - 64
DateTimeOriginal - 2008:02:13 08:05:03
ShutterSpeedValue - 1/256 seconds
ApertureValue - F 4.76
FocalLengthIn35mmFilm - 420 mm

Note I also had a Tcon-17 teleconverter (1.7x) on, making effective focal length 714mm, then I cropped a bit to frame things better.

Let me know how I could improve!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/23769854@N06/2262985767/" title="Bobcat in Parachute, CO 2/13/08 by gjcophotos, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2177/2262985767_0f78973bfd.jpg" width="500" height="385" alt="Bobcat in Parachute, CO 2/13/08" /></a>

[TonyG]

great photo. I think you might try cropping out more of the snow in the foreground and tweaking the brightness / contrast to bring the cats face out of the shadow if possible. I'm quite new to photo editing so take my suggestions with a grain of salt. Very nice shot.
Tony

[PnwGuy]

Nice shot, good catch!

Personally I like to have more animal and less extra stuff. Unless he was stalking a rodent and you wanted it in the shot, everything to the left is dead space. But you do want a little room for him to walk into.

I played with the cropping and really liked it when it was cropped so there was a lot less snow in the foreground and about half the length of his shadow. That put his left shoulder on the upper right "thirds" intersection and his head in the upper center of ths shot.

I also thought it made the the brush/bushes fade into the background of the shot and framed him better.

Those are my thoughts.

[peeperita]

i envy you this sight.....we have bobcat here but, i've never been blessed with the vision.....

i happen to like your crop.....although the white of the snow is overwhelming, i enjoy seeing the tracks in the snow....as if he's following a path......toy with flipping the image horizonatlly and see if you like his approach better.....

if you have the capability of post processing, you might want to mask off your subject and brighten him a bit.....

thanks for sharing

peeper