...and They Will Come #2

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 10, 201375 views4 comments

My last post showed the results of my "new" technique of standing in the trail and letting the deer come to me. After yesterday's buck past by, another buck approached on the same trail, with the same destination (the does)in mind I'm guessing. I took this photo from a greater distance and in this case the buck gave me a fairly wide berth but still this is not generally what I expect from mature bucks, but this is the rut. I cropped this to a vertical so I'm at about 60% of the original file. Still a bit soft for some reason. I lightened this up by adding a stop of exposure and warmed up a bit and added some saturation. A few minor adjustments to the sliders in LR5. As usual, I'm interested in your comments and critiques on this image.

Tech Info

Canon EOS 60D with EF 70-200mm f/4L with 1.4 TC = 280mm
1/1600th at f/5.6 and ISO 1250
tripod

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Gary Gulash on November 10, 2013 at 11:30 PM

I like the low perspective here Peter. I'm bothered a little by the dark clump in the background to the left of the deer. The degree of noise at 1250 iso is quite pervasive, gives the impression of softness on the deer's face. Do you feel the high iso was warranted? A little patience to capture both ears up might have added to the esthetics of the subject. Sounds like this deer population is quite tolerant of humans.

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Comment posted by Peter Cross on November 11, 2013 at 12:54 AM

Thanks for the feedback Gary. I hadn't noticed that dark spot behind the deer. Would be easy to take care of. The noise is more bothersome. Might be related to the crop factor. I normally start out with a pretty high ISO around sunrise as that is the only way to get a shot. In this case, though, I should have reduced it as the light was much better. Certainly, didn't require that high a SS for the speed the deer was moving. As to the ear, he's simply indicating he's taking a left turn

. Which in fact was the direction he went. I need to pay closer attention to things so that I can get away from some of these issues.

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on November 11, 2013 at 6:16 AM

Peter when I first looked at your image I did think it was a bit soft,Garys comment re noise is very interesting and gives food for thought, looks like your "new" technique is working very well and you are getting up close.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Williams on November 12, 2013 at 10:46 PM

I wonder if the noise/softness is from using a 1.4TC that may not be designed to work with a zoom lens? It seems odd.

Registered on December 28, 2010, 636 Posts, 3499 Comments