-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), November 16, 1998

Answers

Before our trip out west last year, I spent considerable effort and some money finding a good used telephoto. I had fun with it, but in many of the pictures the lens isolated the subject so much that you couldn't tell if it was shot at the zoo or one of the grand parks. I think this buffalo with prismatic springs in the background shot with my Canon AE1 with a 20 mm gives a better image of the park and the animals than most of my telephoto shots.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), November 16, 1998.

What can I say. I like it. I agree that it wouldn't have been nearly as interesting with a telephoto.

-- Brad (reloader@webtv.net), November 16, 1998.

I think the image is under-exposed...I think the idea to show the animal and its surroundings is good...but this image suffers from any detail on the buffalo. The foreground is a little cluttered too.

-- Bhaskar Thiagarajan (bhaskart@hotmail.com), November 18, 1998.

Larry, This image is too contrasty for me. And I agree that there's not enough detail in the bison--it's too dark. Did you use a filter? And if so, is that what made the sky so dark at the top? It is nice to see the animal in the context of it's surroundings.

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), November 19, 1998.

Thanks for your comments. You learn something every day. The photoshop version was much lighter than the web version. After some investigation I discovered that I needed to set the gamma in photoshop to 2.2 (it was 1.8).(File>Color settings>Monitor Set up>)

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), November 19, 1998.