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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: SangRaal on March 01, 2015, 04:44:23 pm

Title: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: SangRaal on March 01, 2015, 04:44:23 pm

Note the fresh blood on the second "point" of the right antler

Title: Re: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: SangRaal on March 01, 2015, 04:47:57 pm

Swollen forehead with hole.

Title: Re: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 01, 2015, 08:29:44 pm

I hope neither of them came after you.

Title: Re: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on March 02, 2015, 04:35:24 am

Good documents. I find the backgrounds in both distracting, but maybe there was no other way?

Title: Re: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: francois on March 02, 2015, 07:38:16 am

That's two very nice portraits. I have a sight preference for the second one, I like the colors and the background is better than in the first one.

Congrats.

Where was it?

Title: Re: Wannabe Dominant Buck
Post by: Colorado David on March 02, 2015, 11:05:19 am

Quote from: Paulo Bizarro on March 02, 2015, 04:35:24 am

Good documents. I find the backgrounds in both distracting, but maybe there was no other way?

With truly wild animals, as opposed to captive or habituated animals, you have very little leeway to work with.  As for backgrounds, you get what you get, which is why most wildlife photographers work with long, fast lenses for selective focus.  Whitetail deer in the wild are always looking for something to run away from.  Not only do you have to control your silhouette and movement, but your scent cone as well.  Most wild deer are gone at the first whiff of human scent.  Almost all of the massive bucks you see on magazine covers are photographed in parks where the animals are habituated to the presence of humans and no longer regard us as predators.