I have a lot of respect for good wildlife photographers and I might even consider joining my neigbors on a hunt though I would only shoot with a camera. But, I'm not really equipped for shooting wildlife (with a camera, assumed from here on) as my longest zoom reaches a modest 200mm. But this evening at dinner, EV suddenly issued a "shhh..." warning when she spotted some does right outside our window.
We see a lot of deer by our house. They eat from our compost bin, eat the grass that's still available, and seem to migrate through out area. We once saw probably 70 deer at one time from our living room window. A neigbor mentioned that he saw around 100 on our property just a couple of weeks ago. I've witnessed a car and deer collide from the dining room. And DD did her very best to scare away a youngish buck who saw his reflection in one of our basement windows and attacked with his scraggly antlers until he shattered one of the panes.
Despide all this activity, I have very few shots of the deer, at least not any that I'm proud to display here on my humble blog. But thanks to EV's warning, I finally caught a decent shot at sunset:
200mm, 1/40th of a second, f/5.6, ISO 800.
We didn't get the incredible creamy background that the pros get with their $4,000 USD lenses, but we had fun trying. We waited for the doe to lift her head but she was evidently pretty hungry. Her showing ribs seem to tell the same story.
oh wow,that is pretty cool.
Posted by: r-dean | March 22, 2009 at 08:58 PM