Deer Pictures

[DuncanE]

Just wanted to get some feedback on these pictures I took a couple of weeks back when visiting Richmond Park. This is my first real go at wildlife photgraphy (other than zoo and snatched shots to get an ID) and my first major attempt at lightroom editing.





Both rather frustrated as their advances were not particularly welcomed at the time.

[ron1863]

Nice, like the first one best.

[mh68]

First one for me too...nice framing in both though.In the first shot i would have maybe used more shadow enhancement so the outline of the deer at its back end didnt become a bit lost against the dark background,and maybe reducing the highlights in shot 2 to draw more detail out of the white ear.
How are you finding Lightroom?

Mark H

[matt_xyz]

they're both very nicely composed shots and you did well to capture the deer mid-roar.

Both are perhaps a touch soft, this may be because they're heavily cropped or may be a degree of camera shake, or maybe they simply require a bit more sharpening in Lightroom (after resizing). Definitely nice images though.

Matt

[Ollie]

Nice shots, I agree with Matt they could do with a touch more sharpness but apart from that I would be very happy if they were mine.
Roger

[stirling]

They look good to me,thanks for showing.
Best from mike.

[DuncanE]

Thanks for the comments. This is the first time I've realy shown off any photos outside close friends and family. Its nice to hear (or read in this case) the views of others.

The photos were not meant to be as good as they are as I was only going to go there to have a look and plan a future visit. I was using my monopod for the first time in anger so there was a little camera shake.

Mark: Lightroom is great, unfortunatly its only the trial and I'm likely not to get the full version til after the new Year. Its certainly alot easier to adjust RAW pictures than my elements 4.

As for sharpening, I never know how far to go. the first pic the amount was set to 51, radius 1.0, Detail 53 and masking 15. The second, amount 90, radius 1.2, detail 59 and masking 33. The good thing is that they are in RAW and while I have the trial I can try again and non-discructive too. that said the originals do look slightly sharper than the posts. I'll see what they look like printed and go from there.

[mh68]

You can normally tell when youve overdone the sharpening when halos appear round edges on the shot, and straight edges become jagged (known as aliasing).I spent some time when I first got Lightroom, trying varying sharpening parameters and exporting the image at viewing size,then checking the result.It took a while before i was happy with the resulting image but once I was, i just saved the settings as a Lightroom preset and now to sharpen my shots it just takes one click to apply the preset to the image.Not sure why, but I`ve found i can add more sharpening to a shot in Lightroom,without halos or aliasing,than I can with other programs.

Mark H

[kiwi]

yey! i love deer i remember when i live in our farmhouse a few years back i was only around 6 or 7 years old i used to go to wander at the top of the hill to go into the woods a fields to see rabbits and hares then one day one i was up there i was on a border between a daffodil field and a barley field and i saw a fallow deer you know the ones with white spots and it didn't have antlers it looked at me for a while then ran off it was amazing, i ran to tell my parents but know one believed me.

[juliejam]

Great shots...your lucky to get shots of them ..while at Ashridge a few weekends ago I was able to see quite a few of them but mainly in the shadows..and as you are able to roam around amongst them they seem to hear or see you and run off...not a chance for me to take a pic..

Julie