Big Brown Eyes

Hey, Peter...what a sweet looking doe! I really like this image. It has a quiet elegance and nice mood and feel to it. And those eyes ARE big and beautiful. I think your choice on colour temp/balance is excellent. I've been enjoying all your deer images even though I haven't had enough time to comment as often as I'd like. I can see the effects of the TC on the bokeh and OOF zones, but it's not enough to change the overall great feel to this. Love the colours as well. Nice one.

Hi Peter,

Nice colour and exposure on this one - and those eyes definitely dominate the image (tho' to me they look a lot like big black eyes! ).

A few random thoughts - mostly on the personal preference end of the spectrum: For my taste (and especially for a portrait) I'd prefer to see more separation from and/or a cleaner background - tho' I recognize that with the lens and TC combo you had opening the aperture up more could have been problematic. I'm also wondering if a slightly lower shooting angle (looks to me like you're shooting down on the doe) might have strengthened the image a little? If this one were mine I'd probably crop just a tad off the top - to my eye it seems a bit top heavy (and I think I'd do this without adding any more room below). There is some noise visible in the background, but this type of noise is quite easy to handle during post-processing...

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

Hey Peter, nice detail on the doe. For me the light is to even and this causes a flattening of subject and background. If you have to shoot at longer distances sometimes casting light is the only thing that will make the difference in depth of field. For me that is what is missing here. There is no seperation from the doe and background light.

I like the unusual sense of background, and think there are multiple effective ways to present this capture. I would go the other way from Brad's suggestion and take some from the bottom, putting eyes at the center of the image! Different strokes...