How's this Pose?

Gallery: WildlifePosted January 12, 2013140 views5 comments

Out this morning to the nature preserve with temps in the 20's and lots of frost. I dressed warmly and openned a package of hand warmers for my mittens and headed out. The morning started slowly but then I started to see a few deer; many off in the distance. So since I knew the place well I planned appropriate routes that I hoped would put me in good positions. I met a runner I know and he said he had seen 39 deer of which 9 were bucks. Sounded good to me. Eventually, I managed to catch up with my quarries and I felt like I had gotten into a private meeting of the big buck club. When I arrived at my final spot there were about 6 bucks around. A few more came in and a few left but these were all big guys, no small ones allowed. Lots of does which I'm sure they approved of. This is the first time that I had the problem of too many deer around and making it difficult to get s clear shot. This is one I did get which I thought showed a nice pose from this guy. Warmed the scene slightly and sharpened for the web. Otherwise as shot. As always, your comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.

Tech Info

Caon 60D with EF 70-200mm f/4L with 1.4 TC = 280mm
1/1000th @ f/5.6 and ISO 1000
tripod

Comments

5 comments

Comment posted by Verdon on January 12, 2013 at 12:43 AM

nice composition and pose, large version looks nice too, nice work!!!

Registered on June 10, 2011, 147 Posts, 1444 Comments

Comment posted by John Tobias on January 12, 2013 at 8:11 AM

A classic shot Peter

Good detail and color. Looks like this guy had been through the wars. Also like the way he stands out from the BG. Thanks for sharing.

Registered on September 12, 2009, 2120 Posts, 6455 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Reed on January 12, 2013 at 10:26 AM

Nice shot Peter, good detail and separation, I might clone that one white dot out athe bottom of the shot under his head, small nit.

Registered on September 19, 2009, 198 Posts, 1074 Comments

Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on January 14, 2013 at 12:36 AM

Hey Peter, these bucks must be getting really used to seeing you around.

You had good light here and the image shows great detail and clarity and the DOF is pleasing. Ideally though, he would have been in an 180degree opposite direction as in that case there would not have been a shadow across his face. But obviously that was not within your control.

Just a technical note: I see you were shooting off a tripod, which means you could have dropped your ISO and SS to get even better IQ (although the large version looks clean).

Registered on February 24, 2006, 504 Posts, 7203 Comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on January 15, 2013 at 9:49 PM

The only thing I can suggest is to play around a little in post processing and see if you can enhance eye detail on the shadow side of the face with selective tweaks of brightness and contrast. I find the marks (scars?) on his nose to be interesting.

Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments