Key Deer

Cute little Key Deer - just a bit overexposed on the lighter parts of the coat.

John
Terrific subject, nice pose and lovely blurred background. I agree with EJ about the whites being a little over, a difficult contrast problem with bright sunlight. The evaluative meter in the camera probably needs to be at -2/3 ev compensation just to be zeroed out. Try going outside on a sunny day (from 2hrs after sunrise to 2hrs before sunset) and point your camera at the blue north sky (midtone). Adjust the meters comp until at iso 200 and f16 the camera wants to shoot at 1/200 second (sunny 16). Whatever adjustment that is will be what it takes to zero out your meter (ie expose properly for a complete midtone -without white highlights).

In this situation, the dark green background makes the camera want to open up even more to attempt to bring the dark greens (seen almost as black by the meter) to a midtone gray, and this ends up causing the whites to go. My guess on this camera would be -1.3 or even -1.66 in very contrasty light like this. (Basically the minus 2/3 to zero it and another -2/3 to one for the whites).

I know you are really getting into the photography now so I hope you dont mind the metering information here.. Feel free in your next post to include a line: Comments welcome except from DKO

Enjoyed working with you at Bosque. Happy New Year.

Cool, this is the first key deer I've seen here. They are so small.

A nice alert pose, just a bit over-exposed in the whites.

Dennis

thanks for the extra time you spent making the comments concerning exposure-this is majorly helpful and will be put into practice. your comments are always welcome

john

Hey John, forget the meter .

Subject is in bright sunlight!

Sunny f/16 equivelent = 1/800 @ f/8, this is a given regardless of the background.

With digital, I will close down for the white sunlit highlights 2/3 to 1 stop.

1/800 @ F/10

Trust it as you would a compass!

Best, see ya soon and have a HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Chas

Other than the exposure issue already addressed, this is a nice portrait of a cute little deer.

Great to see a new critter posted. I'm so use to seeing long legged moose- this cute little guy looks seriously leg challenged!

Hey John,

I like the composition .. nice low angle, the subject pops from the b/g, and the flowers on the ground add to it also. Those ears blow me away.

Cheers

Carl

Cute little deer! Somewhat overexposed on the whites but the BG is nice.

A little over-exposed but a linear overlay might bring it back. Dennis and Chas have given you great advice. Take it and run!

What a little sweetheart! I'd love to see this with the suggested linear overlay!