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King of the forest
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Love it! Really like the framing in between the trees, sharpness and DoF are very good as well!
This is a subject I really want to shoot! Just love deers!
Regards,
Rod
I like that the focus on the stag’s face is very sharp and the colour balance between the deer and the green of the background. Did you mute the colours?
Great capture, but it doesn’t really strike me as a good shot. The shot doesn’t look sharp and although the scene is exposed, the subject is underexposed and could do with a bit more light. You could do a bit of work on this in photoshop to bring the stag out and maybe enhance his colour.
Good capture, but I find the foreground trees a bit of a distraction because the focus is so soft, would have been a nice natural frame if they were a bit more focused,
I would love to have the opportunity to photograph one of these beauties!Shutterbug
I like it, it could do with a touch more warmth and saturation (if its in RAW, adjust to cloudy or shade white balance in raw converter and slide sliders to taste). Unfortunately on my laptop screen, which isn’t the best colour and brightness wise, I can see some jagged selection artifacts on the left side on the edge of the trunk and the blur tool is also quite obvious. I fell into this trap lots of times when I only edited on one uncalibrated monitor, I’d crank up the brightness of the image a good bit just before saving to see if someone with a brighter screen will see any ‘gotchas’ :)
My camera club took a trip down to Killarney for the rut this year and from that experience I know how difficult it is to get this close to a stag.
He’s a fine speciment and apart from some colouring and sharpening I think you’ve captured it really well. Ok, it would have been nicer to have him look smack bang down the lens, but for wildlife shots we have to live with what we get. It would have made it an enormously better picture though, esepcially with the natural framing.
After all the good stuff, I’m afraid the bad news is that shot is completely ruined for me because of the post processing and especially the horrible blurring. Nature photographs should look completely untouched, even if they’re not and this looks butchered (sorry to be blunt). I’d go back to the drawing board, revert to the original and try and keep your processing to a minimum. The content makes this shot, you don’t need Photoshop magic to make it better.
Thanks lads,
I agree on the butchering job with the blurring, i did it on a laptop borrowed from work and posted it from the laptop without looking at it on my PC, screen on the laptop is shite and when i saw later what i had just posted i nearly died, but decided to let it be, it is getting the bin i can assure you that and it is back to the drawing board with this lad, thanks all for your C&C. I’ll repost the new improved version when i have it done.
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