White-tail buck

[John Mack]

This image was created in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 11/28/18 at 8:10AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Medium crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
468mm
ISO 1600
f6.3
1/800sec

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi John, was this under exposed?

The image is quite grainy and if the light was from behind, so the face was 'in shadow' then this would have worked better IMHO as a backlit image. Like the colours.

TFS
Steve

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Jon ... like the idea of the shot , and the running pose in your direction is great . Like the lifted front legs and the backlight situation . From the technical aspect ...it is a bit problematic , i do agree with Steve about that .
With the latest postings you have presented a higher noise level ???? Why ?

TFS Andreas

[Jonathan Ashton]

Looking at the image I suspect the background/surroundings were exposed reasonably OK, consequently the buck was underexposed and you have (I think) increased exposure overall. I am rather puzzled at the apparent noise for ISO 1600, this leads me to think the image was perhaps underexposed. I think your processing has increased exposure a little too much that is why the noise is so apparent.