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    Hi all,first thanks for all the kindness shown to me and all the help, so so kind cheers.

    This little guy is taken from the hide locally I mentioned, they are fed,but still incredibly jumpy. Utterly wild,but much much easier to be very close, I think the best way of describing them is slightly desensitized,to us. We see muntjac and fallow here. It's a lovely place to practice and this is one of my first outings with the iv I think. It's cropped frankly because I was in the throws of learning to get my focus points moved about,my framing was awful.Tv 1/400 iso 1600 f/4. guys I struggle abit here when the suns shining,light goes from dark shade to bright high lights as the deer move I seem to blow more highlights than I want to.

    F70F9114 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr

    thanks so much folks

    Stu

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    Hi Stu, I think you were fortunate to get so close. although how much of a crop is this?

    I would have liked a more 'look to camera' so the face engages with the viewer rather than looking down. Sadly with our 'weather' light generally is of a premium, therefore you need to get more ISO for a better SS, and I feel the MKIV may suffer a bit when compared to say the 5D. The ears in different direction do however indicate how alert this fawn is, listening out for any sounds of danger. F/4 hasn't given you the best DoF as the muzzle looks a bit soft, personally I would like to have seen nose to eyes sharp, with ears tailing off, however... I also like the background, nice woodland, but it's showing some noise and posterisation/bloching, perhaps down to processing, the noise you can deal with in PP. Providing you don't blow the highlights, again you can deal with this in PP, but with Photoshop you can be more 'discerning/specific' with where you want to address key areas, in DPP it tends to be more 'Global' and what I mean with Global is, any changes made to address specific areas effects the whole image.

    I think this is a good attempt, but I feel you should also toggle between here and ETL as you may gain more help overall. I can't remember if as a 'limited' member you can upload direct from your HD, if you can then avoid uploading from Flickr.

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    Hi Stu - Steve has given you a very thorough critique with which I agree, particularly about the dof and the noise/posterization. You might want to start off by posting the ff as it will help to show if the issues are from the techs or if they are a result of too large a crop. I think one of the most common mistakes that a lot of people make when they first start posting is to pixel bash/severely crop an image. I also would prefer a bit more room on the rhs.

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    Steve all taken on board and yes I will try ETL too,mind my first picture here has lead to me learning so much I just can#t be other than grateful,couldn't ask for more mate. Steve the image is a fair crop probably 25% of ff which I'm starting to be aware is too much I feel. Particularly useful for me personally is the note on which aspects of the face you prefer to be sharp,something I haven't pondered enough. Following that I understand totally what you mean by global processing in dpp and how one can select areas to work on in PS via layers I guess. As you know I don't have other than dpp at this time,but it's still very useful to me these observations . Your notes on the fawn looking slightly down have resonated i'd completely overlooked this Steve. The one thing I need to look in to here is the posterisation,I've only seen it mentioned here recently I think by Andreas.

    Rachel thanks so much your post compliments Steve's perfectly for me highlighting some of my oversights or plain mistakes. None the less i'm hugely grateful,I know I've got a long way to go both,but you guys are really giving me lots to ponder

    thanks so much

    Stu

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