Canon 10D, Canon 100-400mm L I.S. @ 390mm, 1/125 Sec @ f5.6, Raw,
ISO 400, Gitzo 1548/B1.
Full frame,levels,slight curve adjustment,hue/saturation +4, Neatimage.
Hi,
This time of year with the Roe deer rut not a million miles away ,always has me looking through some files from previous years.
Took this one in 2005 in the last rays of the July sunshine,just got round to processing it.I really must get more organised
A mammal I absolutely love watching and photographing.
I wish I had files as good as this that I hadn't got around to processing. My favourite deer and a beautiful image - the OOF green vegitation helps you focus on the deer's head but still shows quite good detail in the body. I really like it!
Lovely light and a super specimen Justin.
Given the vegitation and the clear neck/head I'd be VERY tempted to crop this one to emphasis these areas only, possibly cutting off the right half of the pine tree and going close to the rump of the deer, leaving the ear on the top/right third. Maybe that would be a little tight for some tastes, but as-is I feel you've too much dead area below the deer.
Ditto David's comments about having shots like this unprocessed
My only nature shots of late have been of a bull being lifted by a helicopter......don't ask
Given the vegitation and the clear neck/head I'd be VERY tempted to crop this one to emphasis these areas only, possibly cutting off the right half of the pine tree and going close to the rump of the deer, leaving the ear on the top/right third. Maybe that would be a little tight for some tastes, but as-is I feel you've too much dead area below the deer.
Thanks for the suggestion John,funny enough out of the 15 or so images I took where the deer was surrounded by green,this was actually one of the loosely composed ones.I framed quite a few exactly as you have suggested.
Think I'll print one of each and see how they compare.
Posted by Elliott Neep on June 22, 2007 at 3:20 AM
I've looked at this a few times and really couldn't decide whether I liked this or not. Sorry, but I felt the green haze obscured too much. The light and posture of the buck are amazing and it has a real feeling of 'chanced upon' which I think is great. I 'm just trying to get over the green blur. Anyway, to get any shot of a roe deer is an achievement in itself, especially such a handsome buck with great light so
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15 repliesISO 400, Gitzo 1548/B1.
Full frame,levels,slight curve adjustment,hue/saturation +4, Neatimage.
Hi,
This time of year with the Roe deer rut not a million miles away
Took this one in 2005 in the last rays of the July sunshine,just got round to processing it.I really must get more organised
A mammal I absolutely love watching and photographing.
All comments always welcome and appreciated.
I wish I had files as good as this that I hadn't got around to processing. My favourite deer and a beautiful image - the OOF green vegitation helps you focus on the deer's head but still shows quite good detail in the body. I really like it!
David
Cheers
Brian
Given the vegitation and the clear neck/head I'd be VERY tempted to crop this one to emphasis these areas only, possibly cutting off the right half of the pine tree and going close to the rump of the deer, leaving the ear on the top/right third. Maybe that would be a little tight for some tastes, but as-is I feel you've too much dead area below the deer.
Ditto David's comments about having shots like this unprocessed
My only nature shots of late have been of a bull being lifted by a helicopter......don't ask
That is a fantastic image, I really like the out of focus stuff leads your eye straight to the deer.
Magic shot
Danny
John
Aberdeen.
Thanks for the suggestion John,funny enough out of the 15 or so images I took where the deer was surrounded by green,this was actually one of the loosely composed ones.I framed quite a few exactly as you have suggested.
Think I'll print one of each and see how they compare.
Tim
Mark
Top shot in my opinion.
Regards