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cameraCanon EOS 650D

settings Aperture f/9.0 ISO 100 Shutter 1/40 

upload_dateOct, 2014

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10 Comments |
jane_koranda
 
jane_koranda October 18, 2014
beautiful.. love the cattle
elisabeththorn Platinum
elisabeththorn October 18, 2014
Thank you.
sweetpea72
 
sweetpea72 November 28, 2014
Congrats... I soo love cows!! ")
elisabeththorn Platinum
elisabeththorn November 28, 2014
Thank you so much.
janland PRO+
 
janland November 28, 2014
Wonderful capture and composition! Great color and sky...well done! Congrats!
lmsusin
 
lmsusin November 28, 2014
Congrats, Great Shot!!
jthincmh Platinum
 
jthincmh November 29, 2014
Great shot.
sashac
 
sashac December 01, 2014
This reminds me of the oikos commercial for greek yogurt where the cows are greek dancing!!! Awesome!!!
JanLiz PRO
 
JanLiz July 28, 2015
Your composition is great - cows are full of character and you have really captured something great
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elisabeththorn July 28, 2015
Thank you so much,the cows lined up very well by chance really!
JonBerndtPhotography
 
JonBerndtPhotography September 02, 2015
This is just perfect on so many levels. Moo! :-)
sweetpea72
 
sweetpea72 September 02, 2015
Congrats!
paultownley_9706
 
paultownley_9706 May 21, 2022
Fantastic composition,absolutely stunning capture,congratulations.

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Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken on my friend's dairy farm in England.I was walking around taking landscape shots and this one cow kept following me!

Time

From memory this was around mid afternoon, about 2 or 3 pm.

Lighting

It was turning into a stormy day with a mix of very dark cloud and some fleeting moments of sun. Not enough sun however to use a polarising filter.

Equipment

This was shot with a Canon Eos 650D and a Sigma 18-250 mm lens on a tripod.

Inspiration

I love wandering around my friends farm and every year I do a calendar for her featuring the landscape and her cattle. On this particular day the stormy sky and subtle light made for some exciting photos, but I really got lucky with this one as everything seemed to line up!

Editing

The raw image was first processed in Photomatix Pro and tweeked in Photoshop elements.

In my camera bag

I try to travel fairly lightly when going overseas so on this trip I had my Canon 650 D plus the Sigma 18-250 lens. I never go out without my Tamron 90 mm. you never know when you are going to find some tiny flower or insect, it also makes a good portrait lens.I always have various filters, polarising,neutral density and a variable ND.My tripod is also essential as I no longer have a very steady hand! And of course the obvious spare battery and sd cards, I have been caught out in the past.

Feedback

The main thing with trying to photograph animals is tons of patience. I spent three or four days on this particular project just walking around the fields.I do not like to do too much editing and try and frame everything up initially which can take a while, once again patience and more patience.It is easy( well for me anyway) to focus on the animal and forget the background.

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