Double Your Pleasure
by Peter Cross
Couldn't help but think of the old chewing gum jingle for Double Mint Gum when the 2nd buck stepped into view while I had been following the 1st one. It certainly made my morning. Here they are acting like they are best buddies yet a month or so ago they were rivals for the does in the area. Pretty good set of antlers on each of them. Comp isn't the best as there is too much negtive space on top and below but the spacing between the 2 wouldn't let me adjust beyond what I did here. This is about 80% of the original. I tweaked the color balance, saturation, highlights, and sharpened but nothing really major. Actual scene was pretty bland so my hope is that a bit more color adds to the feeling of the image. Wild, free ranging deer at a local nature area.
Tech specs
Canon 60D with 70-200mm f/4L at 200mm
ISO 800, 1/400th at f/6.3
tripod
Comments and critiques welcomed.
Comments
3 commentsAlways tough working with multiple subjects...but you did a good job getting both in focus (and in the frame!) here. As you say you had kind of flat lighting to work with, but you've handled it well. Given the placement and spacing of the deer, if this shot were mine I'd probably "work" the implied line between them by going more pano by cropping out about half of the foreground (the bottom half is mostly out of focus anyway and arguably contributes little to the final image). Just a thought!
Cheers...thanks for sharing this...
Brad