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Please provide any C&C - I'm trying to improve on my wildlife shots. Thanks in advance!
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Nice shot, the shallow DOF isolates the subject very well, which is a good technique for shooting wildlife.
For something to improve on...really good wildlife shots will often create some connection from the subject to the viewer. Eye contact is a good one...so if you have the animal looking right at the camera/viewer, you can create that connection. In this shot, it looks like the ram is looking to our left (his right) rather than right at us...so we don't really have that connection.
If you can't have them looking at you, it can help to have them looking at something that is in the frame, so that the viewer can identify with what the animal is looking at...and pretend that they know what it's thinking.
These are somethings that apply to portraits of people, but if you can make portraits of animals...it often makes for great shots.
Of course, they are wild animals so you can't really control or direct them...so sometimes you just get what you get.