Out for a Stroll

[hubcap]

just looked out in the woods behind the house

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f6.3 1/4000 ISO6400

C and C welcome

thanks for looking

[mdonahoe1]

Hubcap,

I have mixed feelings about this. First of all, I love the fact that you were able to capture it at all. Also, I like that it looks so natural. The snow on the branches is beautiful. I think maybe the deer moved causing him to not be as sharp as possible, but hey, that's the way it goes shooting a moving target. All in all I really like this shot.

[Kaye]

Doug, this is a very pretty image and winter scene. How I would love to be able to look out the back of my house and find this:)
I agree with Marianne about the sharpness. Shot at 1/4000sec I would have thought you would have captured more sharpness.... or did you take this behind glass?

[hubcap]

Hubcap,

I have mixed feelings about this. First of all, I love the fact that you were able to capture it at all. Also, I like that it looks so natural. The snow on the branches is beautiful. I think maybe the deer moved causing him to not be as sharp as possible, but hey, that's the way it goes shooting a moving target. All in all I really like this shot.


Doug, this is a very pretty image and winter scene. How I would love to be able to look out the back of my house and find this:)
I agree with Marianne about the sharpness. Shot at 1/4000sec I would have thought you would have captured more sharpness.... or did you take this behind glass?


Hi ladies,

thanks for your input.
What I was attempting to capture with the shot was less about the deer and more about the whiteness of the snow and to grab the actual flakes as they fell and to have a bright scene. A little bit like peering into a snow globe after shaking it maybe.
I was practicing on trees -changing my shutter speed and checking results (the autofocus was having fits due due to the snow so I switched to manual) and the doe walked across the scene. I just kept shooting with my fixed focal length to see what would happen.
Eight of the nine shots I took were garbage but this one struck me as somewhat compelling and I wondered what other folks thought.

[sorted]

Hi Hubcap
Just as above amazing to capture... I would be over the moon to get something as great as this even if I as you were possibly not ready for the Doe as she wasn't really looking for you either :)

[hubcap]

I love that phrase "over the moon." very descriptive.

Sometimes my wife will say " you hung the moon."
More often she says "hang up your towel!"

Thanks for the compliment Elaine.