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Rain Deer

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Posted by Ian Hay on February 4, 2008 at 3:50 PM
Following Snow Geese I thought I would add Rain Deer.

Taken with the sound of rain and Bag Pipes

ISO 500 1/30th 4.5 at 100mm

Comments and any nits welcome.

Ian Hay

PS I will sort the sizing out soon
Posted by jack chapman on February 4, 2008 at 6:09 PM
lovely portrait and the setting is nice too, the left antler is a bit close too the edge of the frame though
Posted by Adrian North on February 5, 2008 at 4:33 AM
Ian,

Nice protrait my only nit is the same as Jacks - would like to see slightly more space on LHS. Thanks for sharing

Adrian
Posted by Paul Inglis on February 5, 2008 at 6:55 AM
Hi Ian,

Nice caoture but its a little tight in the frame for me too! :toast:
Posted by Ian Hay on February 5, 2008 at 7:40 AM
Thanks for the comments

You spend ages trying to get close to one of these then you find the A82 layby scroungers and you spend time trying to get them to stop following you.

Next time I will take a couple of steps back

Ian Hay
Posted by tony flashman on February 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM
apart from the nit previously mentioned its a great shot, I like the regression in the background.

Tony
Posted by PhilH on February 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM
LoL, have heard about these.. looks a lovely setting though that is worth visiting again to get the shot...

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Ian Hay on February 5, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Sad to say I only discoved them in passing last week. The lay by has a great veiw but is usually full of cars, tour busses and a burger van, with a piper usually on duty for the tourists. Not a usual stapping point for me.

I was driving passed when I saw the Burger van owner trying to stop 2 stags from raiding his bin.

The light was terrable and I was having tripod issues so most of the pictures were blurred.

My nit is that I should of reduced the ISO to allow a longer exposure so I may of got the horizontal rain included. I had sorted the tripod by then.

How long does the exposure need to be to show the rain?

Thanks for the comments

Ian Hay
Posted by Andy Astbury on February 5, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Use some fill flash - that'll show your rain up :biggrin:

Then you can move on to the advanced 'stuff' like using fill flash in mist - very interesting results :biggrin: :wavey:
Posted by Graeme Lee on February 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM
Bit tight for me too, but a nice image :toast:
Posted by Ian Hay on February 6, 2008 at 3:47 AM
Andy

Flash is still a, Pardon the pun, dark art to me. I did experiment but the results were poor.

Thanks for the comments

Ian