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Reward for Bushwhacking (hiking off trail)
Reward for Bushwhacking (hiking off trail)
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Challenge: Serendipity (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Olympus C-740UZ
Location: Lake Erie Metro Park, Michigan
Date: Apr 17, 2004
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 20, 2004

 Spent twenty minutes moving up on this deer, and trying to get a good angle. My heart was thumping for most of the time. Finally got the shot, and hiked backed to the parking lot only to find better looking deer feeding on corn somebody had placed out. Had a good laugh at myself and then snapped 30 good pics of the parking lot deer. The parking lot deer pictures are better, but this one met the challenge better. SHQ, 3 Shot burst, SPort mode.

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Sony DSC-F717
 04/26/2004 09:29:08 PM
Remember to use lotion when you Bushwhack :)
Its a great photo...good luck.
Nikon D200
Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
 04/25/2004 10:50:17 PM
nice capture but color is very magenta and a little soft in focus
Nikon D90
Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 VR DG IF-ED
 04/21/2004 09:59:13 PM
one time I had my camera and TWO deer almost ran right over me and I never got a shot of them... I guess I was too scared. I had thought the noise was our dog and did not pay attention until the deer were right beside me. This is a great capture. Too bad you couldn't ask the deer to move into a clearing!
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
 04/21/2004 08:41:18 PM
While technically it could be better (and you probably know that) the shot was extremely fortunate for you.
Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi
 04/21/2004 08:37:44 PM
Lucky you.
Canon EOS Rebel T6s
Canon EF 55-200mm f/4.5-5.6 II USM
 04/21/2004 08:35:48 AM
Finally, something caught that was not staged. Good capture. If you're like me you are limited by you're lens; if you don't have a telephoto lens (ex. 75-300mm) there's not alot you can do to make your DOF shallower. Would have been a better capture with just the deer's head in sharp focus, that way the trees and other elements wouldn't have been so distracting. Also I find that it has a slight purple colour cast; you can remove this in Photoshop in levels using the gray eyedropper by sampling something gray in the image; with an image like this it is mostly trial and error because you don't have something "controlled" like an 18% gray card to sample.
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