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Hi Don and welcome to the PR forums. The pix here are interesting. I suppose that you had a very long telephoto, no way they'd let you get that close without one (?). All the photos seem a little bright to me however - were they like this, or did you lighten them up? Could be a difference in monitor settings. The little rodent-looking critter there, great catch. The photo colors seem a little off though, or oversharpened (not sure). In all, some really nice shots of the Canadian wildlife.

-GB

I use post processing. I also had to clone out some grass in the way of the mammal, I like a certain process of line emphasis. My camera has a 38 to 380 mm lens.

I wonder if I should just desaturate these.

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Well, I'm glad somebody cared enough to shoot it!

I like your wildlife shots here. I think that would be a great direction to pursue.

But I'll be honest with you Don, I don't care for the post-processing effect. It looks like you added some special effects without taking it to the point where it became "art." If you'd like to pursue this look, I would personally recommend taking it to the next level and really pushing the envelope with it. As it is, it stands somewhere between "art" and "wildlife photography" for me. Without really being being firmly planted in either.

Gosh, I hate to leave a strong criticism like that for a new member. Please don't leave on my behalf :)

Rick

That's fine I may be new here but I'm a veteran of other forums (lol). Thanks for the critique. I do tend to grab that post process very fast.

I do agree with Rick. The photos don't look right. Did you have to crop alot of the frame?

No I didn't crop it. I used line emphasis filters.

Don,

No, I dont think desaturating is the answer here. It is actually harder to see the critters w/o colors, which help differentiate them from the background. I think post-processing is OK in general, but this might be a case of overdoing it. Note that sharpening a shot too much can cause effects similar to this - hence a big reason to do a few expts to see what a pic's thresehold is. It varies with every photo (for reasons I'm not sure).

Might be interesting to see the originals if you still have them, just for comparison.

-GB