I took this picture last saturday morning. The deers are every where in the fields these days. Every year when the snow just melt in the fields, we see deers out for a few weeks. He was grazing alone in front of this beautiful scenery. I saw this opportunity and tried to take several pictures at different positions and focal lenghts. I tried to position the animal in a pleasing composition with the mountain. I was wondering if a tighter crop would be more powerful. On this version, I added some punch to the sky in PS. Please give me some advice on composition.
1/1000s
f/11
ISO 400
210mm
-1/3 ev
Nikon D200 with Sigma 100-300 f/4
The comp seems unbalanced to me. I am not sure. I don't think I like the deer at the bottom of the ski slope - merges with the white to much for me. If we was over in the left side that might have worked better. The tree clipped on the right bothers me too.
I think I would have liked this better with a tighter comp and the deer behind a portion of the mountain not so obvious a ski slope. As you said there are a lot out there and moving around, sounds like you have more opportunities.
My suggestion is figure out the BG composition and what ever other elements (trees, etc.) you want to include, get in a position to frame that and see if a deer gets into the right position. Sounds hard I know. Otherwise, just keep moving around and get them with a BG that does not merge with them.
Deer in the field
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