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Published: 2013-01-16 21:07:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 8869; Favourites: 464; Downloads: 0
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Taken on a frosty winter's morning shortly after sunrise.Some of my other recent work:
My Facebook page: James Winslett Photography
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Your beautiful work has been featured in my latest journal..
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Thany you so much
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Hello!
Your beautiful photo has been featured in my article for #TheFavouriteShowcase [link]
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I was wondering if I may use this as a reference for a drawing? 
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Sure. Just send me a link when you're done. I'd love to see it
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Awesome! Thank you and I will.
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Thank you so much
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I love the tones in this image, although I think it might be good if more sunlight was hitting the deer for more highlights and contrast. When I look at the composition, it feels a tad out-of-balance for me, maybe if there was more space between the antler and border to the left? Regardless, great image.
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Thanks for the feedback. This was very shortly after sunrise on a misty winter morning, hence the low contrast and lack of highlights. I see where you're coming from regarding the composition - I tried to centre the image on his antlers, but this does leave his head slightly off centre to the left and maybe accounts for the out-of-balance feeling you describe. Personally, I would have preferred a few more contrasting colours in the image - the deer, the ferns, the trees, everything's very brown, which keeps this from being one of my favourites
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Seriously, 0mm? You were this close to him? That's amazing... I have a 110mm lens and still haven't managed to get a good shot of deer. I'm trying though!
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Haha, no. My camera doesn't recognise the vintage lenses I use, so they all show up as 0mm in the Exif data. This was taken with a 70-210mm zoom from a distance of maybe 15-20 feet
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Ahhh, gotcha. Still, 15-20 feet is very impressive.
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A lovely shot, deer are skittish usually, so a good photograph here.
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Thanks. Yeah, any big movements startle them - it took me about an hour to get this close.
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A very wonderful picture! He looks very cute! Which lense did you use?
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Thanks! I used an old Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm lens at f/8 and full zoom
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No problem! Oh ok! For Nikon or Canon Camera? That must be a very very old lense, mustnt it?
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Yep, older than me anyway. Mine was made by Kiron for Vivitar in 1976 and it's actually Olympus mount, which ironically is much easier to adapt to Canon's modern EOS cameras than Canon's own FD mount from that time. It's an amazing lens if you don't mind going fully manual and cuz it's so old, you can pick them up for a song on eBay. Most of the portraits in my gallery were shot with this lens
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MAN this is awesome!!!
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Thanks. There was still a bit of morning mist in the air which helped to smooth the gradient from the orange bracken up to the frosted tree branches.
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yeah!
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Thanks. It was early winter, but there were still lots of nice autumnal colours around, especially with all the bracken - you could hardly see the deer when they were laying down because they were so well camouflaged.
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Oh, that's one of the best times of year. Haha, that's really funny. Almost like, find the deer.
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Very old and much bigger than the other bucks in the herd, although you can't tell from this shot
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He's beautiful.
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