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Brown Hare

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Posted by Scott Tilley on September 23, 2010 at 6:33 PM
Brown Hare
One from a couple of weeks back. I had been out with the camera since 5am looking for the group of Roe Deer that frequent the fields and wood behind our house but with no luck. I saw this fella lying down in the field near the house facing the road so doubled back and managed to get behind him by approaching from a field further away. I then crawled approx 200 metres across the field and managed to get within 3 or 4 metres of the hare who was still lying down with his back to me. Unlike Ian with his Mountain Hare I then spent ten minutes firing the shutter trying to alert the hare to my presence! (I have a lovely sequence of his backside!!) He did eventually get up and let me take quite a few shot as he gradually ambled further along the field.

Canon 50d, canon 100-400 @310
1/500
F7.1
ISO 250

All comments welcome

Scott :smile:
Posted by John Robinson on September 23, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Very nice !
Contrast down a tiny bit maybe ?
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Ian Mason on September 24, 2010 at 2:55 AM
Well done! I think they have great facial expressions. I'm sure my mountain hare smelled or saw me before he hear me! I might take a little of the dark bit off the top.
Posted by Guy Rogers on September 24, 2010 at 3:42 AM
Hello Scott.

Lovely capture and POV and the eye contact is great.

I think I would try and reduce the brightness on the Hare and the grass at the bottom, but the top half of the background I would leave as is.

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:
Posted by Neil Burton on September 24, 2010 at 3:59 AM
Agree that the hare is contrasty, but wonderful woeful looking thing he is.
Posted by David Sewell on September 24, 2010 at 5:02 AM
Nits covered, but still a wonderful shot that captures the essence of my favourite British mammal.

David
Posted by Karen Summers on September 24, 2010 at 5:02 AM
agree about knocking down the brightness but a lovely shot still
Posted by Matt Cole on September 24, 2010 at 6:17 AM
brightness nit mentioned, but a very nice image in all other regards. Nicely taken.

Matt :toast:
Posted by Simon Litten on September 24, 2010 at 7:02 AM
Lovely shot with a great pose from the hare. A little bit contrasty but easily remedied with Shadow/Highlight slider.
They're a great subject, aren't they? :biggrin:


Simon
Posted by Lee fisher on September 24, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Great eye in this shot, as said above a little harsh on the contrast but still very good :toast:
Lee
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on September 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM
A great capture which can easily be improved even more with less contrast as stated.
Well captured.

Geoff.
Posted by Scott Tilley on September 24, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Thanks, everyone for the replies. I've given the contrast and brightness a bit of a tweak!

Regards

Scott :smile:
Posted by Craig Jones on September 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Lovely pose captured Scott the portrait composition suits the image really well and the re-post is much better :wink: :wink: :wavey: