From last year’s trip to western Mongolia. I was privileged to join a small group to follow a family of eagle hunters and herders in their migration to their “Spring” grazing land. Day two we hit a snow storm, it was very windy and cold but no slowing the migration for weather! This is obviously a group of camels, which are more or less turned loose but always seem to know where to go.
I would have liked to not have the hindmost camel clipped, but there is actually one more behind that one, and to include it would mean either a very panoramic crop or a lot more white negative space so this felt like the best option. I did a little work in CR and PS to bring up some details without hopefully losing the feeling of the time and location.
4 comments posted
Richard Distlerath
Title: CAMELS IN THE WIND Posted: 04/07/2025 13:30:59
Richard Distlerath
The exposure on the camels is very good. I like the lower perspective. The strength of the image is on the left side. As you said you would have like not to clip the hindmost camels. Perphaps you consider cropping in the small space behind pink blanket where it would not intersect any animal. Sounds like a fabulous trip. Posted: 04/11/2025 04:06:37
Lillian Roberts
I considered that crop and rejected it initially, but then I reconsidered after your post. I have cropped it and entered that version a couple of times now, will see which works best.
Lillian Posted: 04/14/2025 19:34:27
Gloria Grandolini
Lillian, beautiful image. It is very hard to get the exposure right with all the white around but the shot is perfect and camels very sharp. To me the center one is the best - it is smiling it seems. I agree on cropping on the right side. Posted: 04/17/2025 16:25:28
