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Muntjac buck UK Munticus reevsi
A little help in the grey,well maybe,:S3: I sort of doubt that I could have made this with my 1Div.
I've gone out close to home in the hope of catching a roe at sunset,it's a cloudless day and very still,so I've added on the 2x ext iii as it will be incredibly difficult to get close in to roe under these stalking conditions. Naturally my best laid plans fall apart when I spot this little fella dancing about in the deep shade of a railway embankment. I make my approach and sneak out from cover on my stomach in the hope of a more environmental small in frame type of image. I can out do Roe fairly consistantly(and get very close oft staling wise),they don't seem to have very good eye sight,especially up close. Our little beer barrel of a deer the muntjac,are the opposite. Their eyes seem incredible he had me almost instantly,even though i'm using every trick I know full camo wind right ,no skin showing, lying down,he still spotted me. Now normally that's it game over,but this time was different,he came to find out what I was. Their are a few brits posting here,I'd be incredibly surprised if anyone else has ever had a muntjac come to check them out,without the use of hide or cover.
So this encounter is/ was very very special to me. As you can see the area is damp and very low lying,so much so that cold damp air is also causing huge vision problems for me with my glasses steaming up. I simply shouldn't have had the extender on ,but sadly I simply didn't fore see any chance of getting close to him,it's a real shame,because although I've done my best the iso is so high I feel the frame/s are compromised,and this I feel was a unique chance that will be along time coming again.
I made this just before I had a few eye probs I had started to process,but have gone back again and started over. i've tried very hard to get the WB /colours right in DPP,done a bit of NR there also aswell. then I moved into PS and using layers done a separate pass of nr to the bkg and sharps to the buck using masks,sharps amount 500 radius 0.2 threshold 0. I'm not completely happy.
I guess at this time fundamentally I don't know whether the RAW is simply good enough to perserveer with,which is a shame as these chances are few .
Image is made with a canon 1dxmark ii 400DO is ii 2xextiii the image is not cropped as framed Techs 1/200 f8 iso 25600
As I say if I'd of had a chance then the EXT wouldn't be there,but one takes what one is given and this was a gift !! An absolute first for me with a munty and no cover,he had me smiling for days afterwards
My apologies for me not being about,hopefully if I can survive next week,I might be able to contribute a bit more. Thanks for all the help on my previous images,hopefully I'll be able to share more of my exploits with this amazing new camera,despite the odd setback it's been seeing some use:bg3:
take care all
stu