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Challenge: Free Study 2011-05 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Critters
Camera: Nikon D700
Lens: Sigma 100-300mm f/4.0 EX IF HSM for Nikon
Location: Romulus, NY
Date: May 19, 2011
Aperture: f/10
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/500
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: May 20, 2011

 A white deer! Lovely creatures; while I was in the area for another reason I just HAD to drive over and see if I could find some to photograph. I was thrilled when I spotted some :-)

PP - tonemapped in qtpfsgui (pregamma 0.697, mantiuk method, contrast mapping 0.1, saturation factor 1.029, detail factor 1), Gaussian blur and brighten on tonemapped layer and merged in multiply mode, pasted tonemapped layer in again and erased all but deer head and merged with 30% transparency, white balance, cloned out one tree stump and a couple of spots on the deer, dodged/burnt deer head a little, increased saturation, resized, sharpened, added border.

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Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 06/08/2011 11:45:09 AM
There is an unusual, photojournalistic, Bigfoot-spotting type quality to this image. Love it.
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 06/08/2011 12:20:19 AM
I have never seen a white deer before! What a beautiful and magical creature - almost unreal at the edge of the woods. Thanks so much for sharing this!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-80D
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 06/07/2011 09:18:38 AM
Nice title. I just read somewhere that "fairies" or "faerie" and later interpretations, such as Tolkien's "elves" are really the same thing. Not the little fairies the size of butterflies- the tinkerbells, but fairies like the green night in "Sir Gawain and the Green knight." big mean faerie- elves.

sorry for the arcane discussion- nice albino deer in there.perfect placement/
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Canon EOS-7D
Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
 06/05/2011 11:29:46 PM
WOW - what a cool looking deer. Certainly a fairy tale image. :)
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 06/02/2011 12:05:01 AM
Nice find !
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