ideas for improvement

Any thoughts on how i could have given this shot more impact?


I know increasing aperture would have blurred the background, but I wanted the building in focus. Anybody got any other ideas?

Davex.

Davex,
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Posting the photo would certainly give it more Impact

shim

something not right, probably my brain.
will try again later on.

Davex

Here you go.





Personally I would crop it a bit, losing some of the foreground and on the left & right too, but yes a better depth of field would give it more impact!

There's no one down the pub yet so I was at a bit of a loose end and tried fiddling with the pic. Not a howling success but I thought I'd post it anyway. I'm damned if I can figure out how to post it in the forum. Any tips would be appreciated.

Aero

Try "How to post pictures" in the Your Photos forum!

Thanks, John. Blindingly obvious, really. I didn't realise photos had to be parked in cyberspace to post them here. This opens up a whole new world.

Thanks again

Al

Thanks unlocker, Just do not seem able to post images on tyhis site.
Have followed JRs sticky, but it still does not work.

Davex.

I've taken lots of pictures over the years like this and end up being dissatified with them.

They always seem fine as i'm taking them but 'wrong' afterwards...

Often these pictures are 'insurance' shots just in case while I'm changing lens or composing the prize winning shot the deer runs off...

But at the end of the day I'm not sure weather this is a picture of a deer which has a nice house behind it or a picture of a house which happens to have a deer on the lawn - the picture has a split personality.

If I wanted a picture of the deer then I would have zoomed in (or used longer focasl length) and had the deer larger - the longer focal length would have caused lower depth of field and blured the background.
Remember because you concentrated on the deer when lookng through the viewfinder it always seems to be more frame filling than it does when you view the print/JPG.

If I wanted a picture of the house I would have waited for the deer to go and probably have used less lawn in the picture trying not have the house smack in the middle of frame (unless I wanted a strictly architectural record shot)

Keep on shooting the only way to get better is to tske more pictures, and by evaluating what you like then you develope a style which becomes second nature.

So i cannot have a good picture of a house with a deer on the lawn?
Still at least I have finnally managed to post an image.

[IMG]http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj143/davex190560/deer2.jpg[/IMG]

The head of the deer does get a bit lost in the house detail. A slightly higher viewpoint would cure that, or the deer being a bit closer and having the lawn as a backdrop. As it is, the deer is balancing a house on its shoulders and the two don't quite gel together.

It looks as though you have focused on the deer and the house is not quite within the DOF, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps a wider aperture still to make the house less dominant would also concentrate our eye more on the deer.

Technical quality is good. You have opted for a soft colour style, which is fine and fits the subject matter well.

Revisitng the scene and waiting for another deer might seem a long shot, but it's a nice image and worth a second shot.

Hope that helps!

All in all, a decent picture of a small deer. Sure, it's not in the ideal position in relation to the house if that's a feature you want to include but I doubt your subject would have stayed put long enough to allow you to have found a better viewpoint. I'm no expert in wildlife photography but it takes a lot of time, patience and skill to capture your quarry with the perfect background. I straightened the pic, cropped it and added some blur in the background to isolate the deer a little. Thanks to John's advice, this may appear somewhere with this post.

Cheers

Al

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thanks all, think i should have used a larger apeture and concentrated on the deer . This is Aero`s image.

[IMG]http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj143/davex190560/3600984708_ba7c6c98211.jpg[/IMG]


Aero i have only just got posting images; it does`nt seem to work with Flickr, use photobucket instead.

Davex.

Flickr doesn't allow hotlinking, so no it wouldn't work with a photo there.