White-tail buck

[John Mack]

This image was created in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 11/28/18 at 4:17PM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Medium crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 10,000
f6.3
1/250sec

[Jonathan Ashton]

This looks better than the previous high ISO image, you have more detail in the coat and there is less noise throughout. If you felt inclined you could make a duplicate layer and denoise it further then mask the paler or all deer parts using a brush at differing opacity.

[Isaac Grant]

Figured I would come over to Wildlife and check things out. Have not looked here in quite a while. This looks excellent John for the ISO. A bit more NR on background would finish this off nicely.

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello John,

Lovely portrait of this White-tail Buck, I like the eye contact and inquisitive pose:)

Subject is sharp and colours/tonality overall look very good. There seems to be a tiny blue cast on the nose and L side of the subject's face.

In terms of composition I suggest you take off a bit from the top - for better proportion, but also to eliminate to some extent the branch in the top right corner.

Very nice work, John. Looking good at 10.000 ISO. Have you already done some NR, I notice a small "blurred" patch on top of the subject's head, maybe blurring?

Kind regards,