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    Well, with all the fine Stags & Elks posted to date, it would be wrong not to include a Highland Stag.

    Just as the season is beginning to get underway and the Stags are getting into the full rut and claiming their harems. This one was caught looking back, as one of the other males bellowed across the glen. Would love to get one of the large males with an impressive rack.

    Taken early morning on a typical Scottish day, overcast!

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    Subject: Highland Stag looking back, head shot (Cervus elaphus)
    Location: Cairngorms, Scotland
    Camera: Canon MKIII
    Lens: 500f/4 - beanbag
    Exposure: 1/40s at f/4 ISO800 0 stop compensation
    Crop: Slight crop for presentation (original capture vertical)
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    A young stag but a very fine shot - excellent colour and detail despite the 1/40 sec shutter speed on the 500mm.

    Very nice indeed!

    Gerald

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    Very well done indeed Steve
    TFS

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    Nice and sharp at 1/40 Steve and I like background. The eye is fantastic.

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    Lovely strong composition here, really like that eye intensity and the strong diagonal caused by the antlers and the head. Looks to have a slight colour cast on my monitor, not sure if anyone else sees it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jamie_Douglas View Post
    Nice and sharp at 1/40 Steve and I like background. The eye is fantastic.
    I agree.

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    Super clarity and IQ, Steve...looks a tad magenta but I am viewing on an untrustworthy laptop screen so will check again tonight
    Looking forward to the big rack
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    My calibrated monitor also seems to show this to have a magenta cast. I find the light on the eye to be distracting
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    Steve...looks a tad magenta but I am viewing on an untrustworthy laptop screen so will check again tonight
    Hi Morkel, when you get back open it in PS there is no cast, my calibrated monitor can swop to both RGB & sRGB mode so I know what I set to for the various outputs ie print/screen, easier to comment, never trust the browser.
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    Steve,

    I opened it in PS and it still had a cast, must be my monitor

    NB Re-saving JPEG has caused loss of detail

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    Steve - majestic looking stag with your usual fine IQ, sharpness and detail. Can't comment on color as not on my calibrated monitor now. Interesting how dark the antlers are.

    TFS,
    Rachel

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    Hi Steve a fine image,the colour looks spot on to me.

    Phil.


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    Hi Steve

    lovely image..... just my take on it... just felt it needed a slight boost in curves..

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    Cheers Peter, certainly brings out the depth of colour, although taken on a very overcast day, with poor light (see techs) it might not be as reflective. Appreciate the input.

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    Hi Steve....

    You are very welcome... regarding your point of it not been reflective....

    my way on thinking has always been that Art is about making the image the best it can be rather than a photocopy... as Brooks Jensen once said.. "I am not in the xerox business" or to quote Minor White..''one does not photograph something simply for "what it is", but "for what else it is".

    but its your image so I respect your point of view....

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    Very 'philosophical' for a Saturday morning, I too respect your thinking PD and will ponder...
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    when you just got your rear end kicked by Wales....... we (irish) have our philosophical moments!!

    guess the way your (eng) game is going... you too could have a philosophical moment!! lol

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