Mountain Goat Greeting

[Milehighguy]

Above treeline on Mt. Evans I met these wonderful creatures coming over the rocks.

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[Geoff F]

Nice compositions and some tricky exposures have been well handled.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi,

Interesting goats, I guess they are still shedding their winter coat, as well as being friendly.

As Geoff has said, well handled exposures (and WB).

It would help people viewing (and critique) if you copied and pasted each image in to the post, so we can see them more easily larger. When you use the attachment method, I appreciate that's a bit of a faff, which is why we recommend the TinyPic method for people without their own website.

I'll do it for you this time.

Cheers, Dave

PS
Could you do me a favour please?
Could you click Settings (right at the top),
then Edit Profile (on left)
and put your first name (Guy?) in the Real Name field please,
then click the Save Changes button below and to right,
this helps everyone give you more personal answers (we do like to be friendly here) - thanks in advance.

[Shadowman]

Nice captures.

[IzzieK]

They are shedding their winter coats...good exposures.

[Milehighguy]

Thanks. As you can note with my 27 posts vs. your 15K posts you are light years ahead of me with communicating and operating on this website. So my next post will be with the intention of using your helpful offering. I have some recent pictures of some bighorn sheep grazing off the mountains onto the nearby flatlands. I couldn't get as close as the goats which are not as aggressive as the very territorial rams of sheep herds. The pix are not as good, by far, but interesting.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi,

You may find this thread helpful:
HELP THREAD: How can I post images here?
plus you may find the first post in this thread useful:
How to Get Effective Feedback for your Posted Images

Sorry, I meant to add these in my earlier post, but forgot

All the best, Dave

PS Thanks for PM

[Milehighguy]

Dave, thanks again. (see you are online) Love to stay in touch. Got'a go ... will be updating later ... Regards ... Roger

[Milehighguy]

Dave ... I did it! Straight forward, once done. Thanks for the info on this. I may have seen this method, but defaulted quickly for the smaller pix. I am getting going on Cambridge again after a long hiatus. The current pix and past pix you see were done with my Fuji X-10 with a 35mm equivalent attached variable lens of 28mm to 112mm. The attached pix were done at the max 112mm, which got me as close as one would want to get with these guys without getting chased and flattened. Given the distance and a very overcast day this was about as good as I could get. Thanks ... now I can post much better and I am using my name, too. Regards ...

[Wavelength]

Are these goats wild only? could they be domesticated for milk and wool? is that natural shedding of wool or was trimmed out of them?.....
Kindly post images with some space between them to avoid visual overlap

Regards

[Urbanflyer]

Are these bighorn sheep?

[Urbanflyer]

Are these goats wild only? could they be domesticated for milk and wool? is that natural shedding of wool or was trimmed out of them?.....
Kindly post images with some space between them to avoid visual overlap

Regards

The white goats in the first set of photos have not been raised domestically. The First Nation people of western Canada and the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest did gather the wool when it shed, or took it when a goat was killed for meat. It was spun and used for blankets and some ceremonial items.

[IzzieK]

Thanks. As you can note with my 27 posts vs. your 15K posts you are light years ahead of me with communicating and operating on this website. So my next post will be with the intention of using your helpful offering. I have some recent pictures of some bighorn sheep grazing off the mountains onto the nearby flatlands. I couldn't get as close as the goats which are not as aggressive as the very territorial rams of sheep herds. The pix are not as good, by far, but interesting.

Alas! Yes, your shots are interesting to say the least but I am a bit of a picky responder to any post around here or in another forum I am a member of. I like to see the EXIF of an image. That is how I learn at times, many times. If you cannot include the EXIF of your shots, then at least put it in with the text of your images. Just give us a clue like ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture you used. Also if possible, tell us what software you used for editing your images. Now that request is not that hard, or is it?

I see from the above that you haven't got the sharpness in the photos here. Or you haven't got the gist of using Tiny Pics. One thing I can advise you is to re-sharpen your images before you submit it here because Tiny Pics seems to make them soft. I like your images -- at least you haven't cut any limbs nor horns yet. Keep on posting. Some others will help you too if you ask for help as to what you are trying to achieve. I like a bit more commentary as my mind is more journalistic in my approach to my shots. Other mileages varies but we all help one another. Also, ask for comments and critiques of your images if you want more responders to your post.

One thing you do can do to help, as according to your signature, is to stay around a bit and try to join us in our conversation so that we can get to know you too. You may not know how to critique, but try your best to look at images of others too and maybe try to learn from the comments that you read about those images. It is how you learn, many learn, by observation of others' work. At least I do...

Hope this helps.

P.S.. just saw your last batch of images. I like/prefer the last one. The goats are a little bit too centered on the frame and it will be a nicer composition if you crop a little bit down the frame. I see you are using Photoshop Elements. Since this is the baby version of Photoshop, it will have some function of the mother software, meaning some functions will be the same. Cropping will be the same.

I don't know why but you wrote Roger as the name you want us to call you by, but your EXIF says your image is own by John M.? Perhaps John is your middle name but you want to be called Roger?

[rpcrowe]

I love these images... especially the mountain goats!

However, rather than sharpening, I decided to globally add a bit of contrast and brightness and also to globally add some structure. I used NIK Viveza which is now available free of charge...

I worked on this one because I think that it is an amazing image with the goats mirroring each other in looks...



I think that this image is worthy of entering into any contest! If I were to print this or get it printed, I might add a black outline and a white border...