Whitetail in Rut

[Paul Lagasi]

Here in Ontario, we have very few large Mammals to photograph, every November the whitetail bucks, within the city limits, start to show themselves. I had just come back from photographing Teals, was driving up a busy 4 lane road when I saw this guy. You can tell when they're in rut, they do things you'd never be able to do in September...this buck let me get close enough that so I could fill the frame with my 300mm.
I usually just shoot away, this time I had to compose in camera.
Hope you like it :)
D300
1/250
f6.3
iso-500
handheld
uncropped
border added
Contrast Added to image, Thanks Dave

[David Fletcher]

Real nice portrait Paul. Perfect sharpness and dof. Could do with a contrast boost and the oof foliage a tad unfortunate but that's how it is with deer. Nicely done.

[Alfred Forns]

Love the tight crop and look Agree on the oof vegetation !!! Keeper !!!

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Paul: A really nice, whitetail shot with a beautiful prairie background. I would try switching to 8 x 10 aspect ratio (portrait) to pull a little off the top but that is really a matter of subjectivity. Thanks.

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice tight portrait, OOF foliage hard to tell.

[Paul Lagasi]

Thank You all

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Beautiful portrait with lovely eye contact and crop. Thanks for sharing Paul.

[Stu Bowie]

Good sharp detail Paul, and would like to see some space on the RHS.

[Paul Lagasi]

Thanks Everyone...appreciate the comments