Hi,
I went out yesterday lunchtime for a walk my home golf course in search of a buzzard we'd seen regularly the last few weeks, he/she had been parading about the 18th fairway in search of worms the last twice we'd had a game so I headed up and around the 18th tee as I figured it would be sitting around there.
Well after wandering about for an hour or so three Roe Deer shot past me, you can clearly see one here ....
Cursing my luck at not getting a decent shot I headed back in the direction of the car as I had noticed two people walking their dogs, no doubt the reason the deer were startled, having seen them, I changed direction in an effort to ambush the deer as I guessed where they would appear next, and I was right - here is one of the results, a cracker isn't it
Hotly pursued by ....
So feeling pretty disappointed at having nothing for my efforts I headed back to the car and set off home, I was just exiting the car park when I spotted my original quarry sitting in a young sycamore tree in the adjacent car park, bloody typical I thought, I'd wandered about for the last hour and a half in freezing conditions and there it was about 25 yards away sitting 6 foot off the ground. I quickly got the window down and fired off a couple of quick shots hand-held, however it was sitting with it's back to me I decided to chance my luck and edged the car round in front of it to get a better angle, it never even flinched, possibly because of the cold it was happier just sitting conserving energy, after firing off a few more shots I decided to really push my luck and get out of the car so I could rest the lens on the roof, no problem fired off a few there too, it even let me lean the lens on the bonnet, at this point I was about 30ft way and it just sat there quite happy.
Here are some of the results, the first three are slight crops and PP'd in Lightroom, #4 is totally unedited. I hope you like enjoy them as much as I did taking them.
#1
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#2
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#3
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#4 - Full Frame Unedited
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/30th at F8.0
Thanks for looking,
Mike.
I went out yesterday lunchtime for a walk my home golf course in search of a buzzard we'd seen regularly the last few weeks, he/she had been parading about the 18th fairway in search of worms the last twice we'd had a game so I headed up and around the 18th tee as I figured it would be sitting around there.
Well after wandering about for an hour or so three Roe Deer shot past me, you can clearly see one here ....
Cursing my luck at not getting a decent shot I headed back in the direction of the car as I had noticed two people walking their dogs, no doubt the reason the deer were startled, having seen them, I changed direction in an effort to ambush the deer as I guessed where they would appear next, and I was right - here is one of the results, a cracker isn't it
Hotly pursued by ....
So feeling pretty disappointed at having nothing for my efforts I headed back to the car and set off home, I was just exiting the car park when I spotted my original quarry sitting in a young sycamore tree in the adjacent car park, bloody typical I thought, I'd wandered about for the last hour and a half in freezing conditions and there it was about 25 yards away sitting 6 foot off the ground. I quickly got the window down and fired off a couple of quick shots hand-held, however it was sitting with it's back to me I decided to chance my luck and edged the car round in front of it to get a better angle, it never even flinched, possibly because of the cold it was happier just sitting conserving energy, after firing off a few more shots I decided to really push my luck and get out of the car so I could rest the lens on the roof, no problem fired off a few there too, it even let me lean the lens on the bonnet, at this point I was about 30ft way and it just sat there quite happy.
Here are some of the results, the first three are slight crops and PP'd in Lightroom, #4 is totally unedited. I hope you like enjoy them as much as I did taking them.
#1
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#2
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#3
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/80th at F4.5
#4 - Full Frame Unedited
Canon 1D Mark II - Sigma 500mm F4.5 EX - ISO 200 - 1/30th at F8.0
Thanks for looking,
Mike.
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