Posted by Danny Green on October 1, 2008 at 3:07 PM
I love this time of the year as one of my favourite subjects Red Deer are starting to get fruity and the action is a real challenge to capture. This shot was taken last year on a cold october morning just as the sun had started to rise.
Canon 1D MK11, 500mm lens, ISO 200.
Danny
Posted by Paula Graham on October 1, 2008 at 3:20 PM
Danny, I think the shot just beautiful; the light , the stag's breath and pose, the bg or lack of it! Just gorgeous in every way.
Posted by John Robinson on October 1, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Seen this before somewhere Danny.
Superb.
Great colour cast too !!
JR
Posted by Rob Howard on October 1, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Hi Danny,
Looks like it all came together on that morning!! The light,setting and composition are excellent, as well as the exposure giving just a little detail in the shadowed areas of the Deer.
Great shot, love those sort of images, and I'm a great admirer of your work. But you really should set the clock correctly on your camera as the exif reports the shot taken as 2007:10:21 16:29:37
And the "red hind in early morning mist" on your web site looks as if it was taken late morning or early afternoon, just going on the hight of the sun in the shot and exif reporting 2007:09:30 15:57:35
Sorry if I appear to be nit picking or have blown you cover but I like to disect an image to see how it was done and thereby improve my own photography (which does indeed need improving ) exif data for me does help a great deal in understandig how the shot was achieved.
The red's up here in't north arn't showing any sign of a rut yet, I have to be in Nottingham week begining 13th so might pop in to woolaton hall and see whats about there, just hoping for some misty mornings this autumn. But first, watervoles with my phone camera, I need to prove to a know it all you don't need 5 grands worth of equipment to get close to them.
Cheers
Danielle
Posted by Ian Andrews on October 2, 2008 at 3:28 AM
Super work Danny!
Ian
Posted by Dawn Monrose on October 2, 2008 at 6:33 AM
I'm up the top end of North Yorkshire, any further and I'm into Durham, I think it's just the deer here are so laid back they carn't be bothered yet, they are still milling around in a large herd, where as the fallow have split up into smaller groups with single males. Normally the first near frost sigifies the start of the rut here, so maybe a couple of weeks to go.
Posted by David Kjaer on October 2, 2008 at 3:16 PM
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17 repliesCanon 1D MK11, 500mm lens, ISO 200.
Danny
Superb.
Great colour cast too !!
JR
Matt
Looks like it all came together on that morning!! The light,setting and composition are excellent, as well as the exposure giving just a little detail in the shadowed areas of the Deer.
Stunning, Good work
Regards
Rob
That's a stunner.
Great shot, love those sort of images, and I'm a great admirer of your work. But you really should set the clock correctly on your camera as the exif reports the shot taken as 2007:10:21 16:29:37
And the "red hind in early morning mist" on your web site looks as if it was taken late morning or early afternoon, just going on the hight of the sun in the shot and exif reporting 2007:09:30 15:57:35
Sorry if I appear to be nit picking or have blown you cover
The red's up here in't north arn't showing any sign of a rut yet, I have to be in Nottingham week begining 13th so might pop in to woolaton hall and see whats about there, just hoping for some misty mornings this autumn. But first, watervoles with my phone camera, I need to prove to a know it all you don't need 5 grands worth of equipment to get close to them.
Cheers
Danielle
Ian
Danielle,
Not sure where you're based, but the reds up here in Tayside are rutting, so I'm not sure it's a north/south thing.
I'm up the top end of North Yorkshire, any further and I'm into Durham, I think it's just the deer here are so laid back they carn't be bothered yet, they are still milling around in a large herd, where as the fallow have split up into smaller groups with single males. Normally the first near frost sigifies the start of the rut here, so maybe a couple of weeks to go.
David
Fantastic image. The Richmond Park stags were frisky over the weekend but there was very thick mist until 11am that just killed any contrast.
Jon
WOW! Love the light! Superb image!
That's art fantastic.
Barry