I’ve watched this little buck since he was born last year. I first saw him and took this image of him in velvet this past June 4th. Yesterday he presented me the opportunity to capture him in his latest form. He’s a beauty. He runs with some females, but he always lays out in the woods, literally laying down while they’re eating waiting for them to finish. Then he may saunter up and have a few bites, but ladies first. 🥰
Hope you enjoy…and thank you for the visit.
Terry
The Miraculous Process
NIKON Z 8VR 200mm f/2G lens200mmf/2.01/500s6400 ISO0.0 EV
Quite The Handsome Lad
NIKON Z6_3AF-S NIKKOR 120-300mm f/2.8E FL ED SR VR lens210mmf/2.81/400s1000 ISO-0.7 EV
Good work, Terry. It might be my monitor, but the second seems to have a green tint to it, or perhaps that is just the reflection of the surrounding flora. Continue with the mineral blocks and he might be spectacular next year.
Douglas
morris wrote:
I like the cleaner look of the first Terry
Morris
Hi Morris. He was out in the open on the first and in early June I don’t think the trees were so full yet… where the other shot had him back under complete cover. I did white balance off of the ears so I think the color is just being affected by the total green surrounding. He is wary and doesn’t hang out in the open for long…can’t blame him there. 😁
I just looked out and he’s out there chowing down right now with the girls…Now that I think of it, I had moved the corn back under the canopy a bit because of the extreme heat we were having for a few weeks. I was trying to give them a break out of direct sun, which makes the color a bit more challenging for me I guess.
douter wrote:
Good work, Terry. It might be my monitor, but the second seems to have a green tint to it, or perhaps that is just the reflection of the surrounding flora. Continue with the mineral blocks and he might be spectacular next year.
Douglas
Hey Douglas. I think it’s just the surrounding canopy as I was telling Morris throwing all the green, but I did white balance off the ears so I believe that compared to the first one which was right out in the open it may appear to be green. I don’t see it on my monitor, but then I edited these on an iPad mini in the raw processor Photomator instead of on my Mac. I was just feeling lazy.😁 Barbara knew that I had taken some shots of him and wanted to see them so I just took a short shortcut to save some time. It may have bit me in the you know where.🫤
birdied wrote:
He is a handsome young man! Lovely shots.
The ones here are rubbing off the velvet now. Love seeing the deer .
Birdie
Hi Berdie and thank you for visiting. I’m like you and really love having them here…although I am quite apprehensive about their fate a few months from now. 🤞
Thank you Dave. Yeah I stopped down. the lens a little because he was moving around so much I was afraid I'd lose focus. That f 2.0 maximum aperture when you use it grabs of thin slice of air. 😁
Terry
Dave_E wrote:
Nice story, The first shot is my favorite, as Karl mentioned nice separation from the background.
