Finally hooked up with a friend who i have not seen in a very long time took a little drive in the snow and stumbled on a little family. Completely gray sky and snow made for very low contrast

a couple are kinda nice i think


Happy New Year everyone

J

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gotta love stabilized lenses, using the 300 and dragging the shutter to get the streaking snow and still have the deer be sharp is fun

Edited by jmcfadden on Dec 29, 2007 at 06:34 PM GMT

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thanks for looking :P

J

Beautiful images J. I really like #2 and #4. Nice creamy bokeh on #2 - it almost looks as if there are heat waves coming off the deer in that shot.

crop the first image down a bit and it would make an excellent post card

Great pictures J - Happy New Year to you too-
I have one similar, but our deer down here don't look anything like the ones you have up there...

/\rt

Artisador wrote:
Great pictures J - Happy New Year to you too-
I have one similar, but our deer down here don't look anything like the ones you have up there...

/\rt



whew those are some ugly deer bro good to hear from ya and Mr D (the risen one) says hello


J

very nice John.
especially 1 and 3

Dave In La wrote:
very nice John.
especially 1 and 3


thanks Dave , nice to hear from ya man


J

Nice John - 3D quality to these shots. I have GOT to get out and do some shooting.

thanks Trey , come on up bro and we can have some fun in the snow , it wasn't too cold today and the deer were friendly. The D3 is amazing , now i just have to remember to stop down a bit more with a FF camera


J

Love these shots in the snow. You certainly got the look in the third one.

Beautiful, may I ask - - do you use fill flash on these?

Lil

Lil Judd wrote:
Beautiful, may I ask - - do you use fill flash on these?

Lil


I did some experimentation on these Lil, and i did try the flash on some as well. I did not have the flash elevated enough and got some of the craziest looking eyes you have ever seen. I mean the slits in their eyeballs looked like TV screens or alien deer invasion eyes . In this set the only one with flash was the 3rd one. I was just trying to give their eyes a bit of sparkle

J

Really like the stag in #3, well done.

J

Luke Mislinski wrote:
Beautiful images J. I really like #2 and #4. Nice creamy bokeh on #2 - it almost looks as if there are heat waves coming off the deer in that shot.





thanks Luke, it was just the efect i was hoping i could make happen

J

The buck image is awesome and my favorite.

Barbara

Barb Houston wrote:
The buck image is awesome and my favorite.

Barbara


thanks Barbara,

I added another shot of one of his "harem" to the start of the thread


J

You were pretty close to this little family with the 300 Johnny. Nice images. That little buck looks like he is thinking about charging you.

John C.

Stripper wrote:
You were pretty close to this little family with the 300 Johnny. Nice images. That little buck looks like he is thinking about charging you.

John C.


Hey he is a friendly guy and i shot him last month too

http://homepage.mac.com/jmcfadden/PhotoAlbum243.html


J

Bigfoot1 wrote:
crop the first image down a bit and it would make an excellent post card


welcome to FM sir and thanks for the comments


J

Nice ones. # 2 is my fav. Love the snow and the pose.

very cool shots! Wish I was there.

Nice shots John. Thanks for inviting me to tag along. I can't remember when I had so much fun. I'm still processing, but I'm pretty sure I have a couple of keepers. Getting a chance to shoot the 300mm was a thrill and my old 80-200 is no match for the 70-200 VR. It'll be fun to see if there is any difference in the IQ for the two lenses.

Thanks for everything--including the great pictures you post.

Tim