White-tail buck

[John Mack]

This image was created in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 12/4/19 at 8:06AM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 3200
f6.3
1/160sec

[Jonathan Ashton]

I like the colours and tones, the antlers look ok but I get the impression the eyes and nose are not in focus, or possibly some subject or camera motion being a contributory factor. At this magnification DOF will be quite limited. Where was the focus point (s) the ears look sharp???

[Steve Kaluski]

Looks like the same subject posted on the 12/22 John, but I prefer this pose/framing. Same issue as previous and I do have reservations on SS & DoF, why do you keep to f/6.3? Perhaps a monopod might be useful if you keep such low SS John, but I would like to see something like f/8 for something like this. If you remove the blue in the bridge of the nose colour is better IMHO.

TFS
Steve

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

H John, a nice shot with good framing but I think the SS is a bit low. Agree with the slight blue cast on the nose bridge.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi John yet again a nice solid portrait .
It has some minor technical shortcomings , for me the noise is the most disturbing one . The cyan/blue is not only visible on the nose ..... but i am actually ok with the DOF , but for sure a bit more would not have hurt the image .
I do like the overall color and tonal range with the nicely separated subject from the BG .

TFS Andreas