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Red Hind at dawn

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Posted by Tom_W on October 8, 2007 at 5:12 PM
Red Hind at dawn
English Red deer Hind at Dawn.

Shot into the rising sun and mist, over exposed by about +1.5EV to hold detail in the deer then rectified in the raw processing to bring the blacks back to the BG. 2:1 crop, of full width, to eliminate the bad reflections above deer.

600mm/Tpod with me in prone in grass
5000'/F4/400ASA
PS as above
Posted by Justin on October 8, 2007 at 5:26 PM
Very fine image and very nicely processed and presented too. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Dave Courtenay on October 8, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Nicely presented
Posted by Elliott Neep on October 8, 2007 at 5:47 PM
A familiar presentation :biggrin: Nice shot Tom. Would have liked to have seen that this morning, but alas, nothing but grey cloud! :toast: :toast:
Posted by Rob Ashton on October 8, 2007 at 6:08 PM
Very nicely done Tom. Processing and presentation are good.

Rob :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 9, 2007 at 3:34 AM
Another cracking deer image Tom - great job :toast: :toast:
Posted by Jim Greenfield on October 9, 2007 at 3:59 AM
Excellent work - captures the feeling of that time of day perfectly
Posted by Paul Gibbs on October 9, 2007 at 4:15 AM
Hmm nice shot Tom, no nits here. One Q, by over exposing, i assume you had o bring back the colour? As most articles and from practice, i find underexposing brings better colour saturation at dawn and dusk.
Posted by Adrian North on October 9, 2007 at 4:23 AM
Very nice Tom. My only slight nit is that "hair" like thing below the lip - I presume that's something she's eating. It looks just like a hair to me but then again my eyes are not that great :) be worse because of the reduction to web size. I love the feeling that this format brings to the shot though. Thanks for sharing

Adrian
Posted by Tom_W on October 9, 2007 at 4:41 AM
Paul, Re: colour,

No not that much as the colour was intense to start with and the 1Ds2 is very sensative to red anyway. I have pushed the saturation and contrast a wee bit which will also help with perception of whatever colour is there.

T
Posted by Graeme Lee on October 9, 2007 at 8:45 AM
Yeah, really cool image Tom. Nicely done all round :toast:
Posted by John Kerr on October 9, 2007 at 11:33 AM
Very nice Tom, had a go at these this morning at Bradgate......
Got nowt but soaking wet! Oh well will have another go tomorrow.
John
Posted by Alan Woolnough on October 9, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Can't add much to the above Tom, except superb :toast:

Alan
Posted by Helge Sorensen on October 9, 2007 at 3:27 PM
Absolutely top quality shot - love everything about it :toast: :toast: