Muntjac

[ringneck]

One from my initial outing with the 7D and 400mm.
Keith

[Pops]

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Magnificent and the tongue is a real bonus.

[ringneck]

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Thanks- just wish I could have got it larger though....could not understand the upload instructions...

Keith

[throt]

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You have option to copy the link from your gallery or place it from "My Pics" but delete "thumbs/" from the end of the code it places

[ringneck]

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Hi throt.......reading your comment made me have another go....I always upload with the "open" method on the Olympus site but even though I set it to original (not thumb) for some reason last night it went with thumb...as you can see it worked fine this morning.

thanks
Keith

[Pol]

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One from my initial outing with the 7D and 400mm.
Keith

Wow, this is so nice! So much 'presence' I feel I could almost reach out and stroke the animal. beautiful shot.

As you posted in critique all I can add is that it's a shame the feet aren't showing. Other than that i can fault the picci. Lovely lighting, focus, dof and bokeh.

Pol

[ringneck]

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Thanks Pol...It was at a place on the edge of some woods where they put food out for birds - animals etc and she was between two trees at the sides and there was a log in front hiding the feet.
I don't like the back leg being blown out but will have to see if I can do something about that on future shots.

Thanks
Keith

[Ian]

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Thanks- just wish I could have got it larger though....could not understand the upload instructions...

Keith

Keith, I don't understand what the problem is because the e-group and here use the same gallery system.

That's a super capture of the muntjac - I hesitate to say you were lucky because I believe a photographer makes his or her own luck, of course. Was this a known location you staked out?

My only quibble is that the shot is quite grainy - there is not exif data in the shot so I can't see what the camera settings were.

Ian

[ringneck]

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Thanks Ian...it was at a feeding station on the edge of Ragley Hall woods.

Only just got this Kit and was attempting to nab birds so used Aperture Priority at f 6.3 with Auto iso.The speed went up to 1/500 but the iso went mad...2000...and even with some NR it was a mess in the b/g....a good lesson learnt.

Keith

[caimi]

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I'm not familiar with that animal but nice sharp image and great timing.

[Ian]

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I'm not familiar with that animal but nice sharp image and great timing.

It's a dwarf species of deer from, I think, Japan, which was accidentally introduced to the wild some time ago here in the UK. They are very cute and very shy but not native. I believe they are not a protected species here.

Ian

[Caz]

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It's a dwarf species of deer from, I think, Japan, which was accidentally introduced to the wild some time ago here in the UK. They are very cute and very shy but not native. I believe they are not a protected species here.

Ian

Lovely capture.

I don't think they're protected - although they seem to live well with the native species of deer. I quite often see them as well standard small roe deer locally.