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Red Deer Stag

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Posted by Nigel Blake on October 15, 2007 at 6:47 AM
A fine trip to Richmond park yesterday, did'nt really achieve any of the images I had planned on getting prior to going, but I did get a lot of images that I am very happy with.
This was a happy outcome to a bit of a mistake, photographing one stag; two others came running out of the woods straight towards me, in a bit of a panic I must have rolled the aperture dial against my clothes, but I stood my ground and panned with one of the stags and cursed at the slow sound of the shutter firing............


2007:10:14 10:32:51
300mm
1/60 sec, f/10
Mode: Av
Metering: Evaluative
ISO: 250
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Drive: Continuous: frame 1
White balance: Auto
Flash: Off
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Image size: 4992 x 3328
Color matrix 4: Adobe RGB
Color space: AdobeRGB
Saturation: Normal
Contrast: -1
Sharpness level: 0
Tone: Normal
Custom Functions:
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EOS 1DsMkII, 300mm f2.8
Breezebrowser pro, Adobe CS3, resize,levels,sharpen
Posted by PhilH on October 15, 2007 at 6:58 AM
Excellent... great result from a mistake :biggrin:

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Posted by Alan Woolnough on October 15, 2007 at 7:31 AM
Super outcome Nigel :toast: :toast:

Alan
Posted by Graham Bailey on October 15, 2007 at 9:08 AM
excellent shot - sharp face and motion everwhere else :toast:
Posted by Dave Courtenay on October 15, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Great sense of movement-sharp where it needs to be :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on October 15, 2007 at 2:05 PM
Good mistake Nigel,nice action shot

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Posted by Alan Bryant on October 15, 2007 at 2:48 PM
1/60 :eek: .I have trouble panning for motorsport at that speed.

Great motion shot.Love it :toast: :toast:
Posted by Andy Astbury on October 15, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Great action Nigel - nicely captured :toast:

Funny how mistakes often turn out well in this game :wink: :wink:
Posted by Elliott Neep on October 16, 2007 at 4:13 AM
Its great when these kinds of mistakes happen. :biggrin: You must have a wry smile when you reviewed the shot. Perfect panning motion blur. Love these action shots - best thing to do when the light is poor. :toast: :toast:
Posted by Nigel Blake on October 16, 2007 at 5:03 AM
Many thanks for the kind comments, and yes Elliott, a very wry smile!
I think some of the other work I've been doing this year has honed my panning technique quite a bit... http://ngbjets.blogspot.com/
Posted by Danny Green on October 16, 2007 at 5:44 AM
Hello Nigel

I really like this shot, a great plus that the head is sharpe. Not bad for a mistake :cool:

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Danny