Father and Daughter

[Daniel Grossi]

And to think I wasn't going to go out for photos because of bad weather. There was no more room to back up and my other lenses were in my car across the creek. If I had a shorter lens I would have framed it to where you could see his full antlers and the young ones other ear. But then again, maybe it would have lost some of the intimacy if I did. None the less, I feel pretty fortunate to have seen and shot this.

Nikon D500 ~ Handheld
Nikkor 600mm f/4e FL ED VR
1/1640
f/4
ISO-1600
Matrix Metering

8x10 Crop - full vertical image remains, the crop removed a little from the right.
Small bright spot removed from the upper-left BG via content-aware fill in PS

Cleveland, Ohio USA
September 2017
Late day, cool, overcast and light showers

[Andrew McLachlan]

Wonderful sharpness on the buck and a nice tender moment made better by the tight framing. I do wish for the fawn's eye to be in sharp focus. Perhaps a contrast mask applied to the eye would help a bit.

[Glenn Pure]

Daniel, noted your point about not being able to get back any further. What a curse! A beautiful moment captured all the same. The male deer looks wonderful as does the background. Beautiful clarity, tones and colours. Shame about the DOF here. I'm not sure what aperture you would have to use to get a lot more in focus.

[Marc Mol]

Lovely intimate moment well captured here Daniel, I hear you on the DOF aspect and frankly if you were as close as it appears, I doubt even f/10 would have been sufficient, putting you over the D500's ISO limits, IMO. These big prime have such narrow DOF when shot at close quarters.

TFS

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Daniel - Definitely a tender moment. Agree about the sharpness of the fawn but understand the dof limitations. Love dad's eyelashes.

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TFS,
Rachel

[Daniel Grossi]

Wonderful sharpness on the buck and a nice tender moment made better by the tight framing. I do wish for the fawn's eye to be in sharp focus. Perhaps a contrast mask applied to the eye would help a bit.

I don't know anything about "contrast masking" Andrew. I'll certainly look into it - thanks!

[Daniel Grossi]

Daniel, noted your point about not being able to get back any further. What a curse! A beautiful moment captured all the same. The male deer looks wonderful as does the background. Beautiful clarity, tones and colours. Shame about the DOF here. I'm not sure what aperture you would have to use to get a lot more in focus.

Thanks Glenn! I really like the BG also. I probably could have given 1-2 stops of ISO and 1 SS for 3 stops of aperture, but I still don't think it would have captured this fawn well enough.

[Daniel Grossi]

You nailed it Marc. I was less than double minimum focusing distance. Always a balancing act with these settings and getting the most out of your gear.

[Daniel Grossi]

Hi Daniel - Definitely a tender moment. Agree about the sharpness of the fawn but understand the dof limitations. Love dad's eyelashes.

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TFS,
Rachel

Thanks Rachel - I'll be routing through here a little later when I'm on break at work for comments and such. I've been pretty quiet on here lately but plan on picking things up very soon.

[John Mack]

This is great love the interaction and the framing nice background as well.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi David, can only echo Marc's feedback here.

TFS
Steve

PS Just watch the © mark doesn't become too dominant, perhaps just temper the opacity a little.

[Daniel Grossi]

This is great love the interaction and the framing nice background as well.

Thanks John!

[Daniel Grossi]

Hi David, can only echo Marc's feedback here.

TFS
Steve

PS Just watch the © mark doesn't become too dominant, perhaps just temper the opacity a little.

Thanks Steve! I agree, I do need to cut the size down a bit on my watermark add a bit of opacity. It's funny you said that, I was just going through LR and deleting all the watermarks I've saved over the past year since creating it. By the way - am I David? ;)