More Birds

Taken Southwest of Glendive, this rooster was running alongside a CRP field and decided to cut onto the road, giving me a solid shot. I chose this shot due to his body position guiding your eyes from his head down to the beautiful pattern and colors on his torso. I increased the saturation to bring more vibrancy to the blue on his back and to deepen the mahogany on his neck. I also adjusted the contrast to take the fade out of the picture giving it a warmer appearance.  

 I decided to take a portrait photo and take any critique on it since I will mainly be taking this type of shot once out of this class. Pictured here is my Small Munsterlander next to two grouse alongside a barn in Ekalaka, MT. The shot has not yet been edited except for the crop. Taken in early November I thought that the dried grass went well with the aged wood along with my gun matching the color of the dead leaves scattered on the ground.

11-15

Cloud surfing

Flying South from Havre

Bird dogs and Bison

Teaming up on some Hungarian Partridge in Southeast Montana.

Bison near Yellowstone Lake

11/3/16

Taken on the East entrance Yellowstone with a 300mm lens. With the blue sky, snow covered mountains in the photo there is very little warmth in the overall color. The water has a developed ripple from the wind helping with the lighter, faded color in front of the trees which I like. With a scattered layer of clouds above, this helped further in defining the ripples on the water. 

Photo showing reflection of the sunrise over Wyoming with the same 300mm lens. Focusing on the closest cloud deck, which is also our thickest, helps give a denser color. Below that cloud we have more layers further back receiving more of the sunlight taking more of the darker colors away. In the top half of the photo is a light blue sky with some charcoal faded clouds generated from editing. To take the overall fade away I took out some of the brightness and increased the contrast to further develop and define our clouds and strong colors.