misc. photos Running Doe

Scott,  Spectacular shot!
Sam

Scott,

You appeared to have been close to this doe. The fast action is emphasized by the effect of the blur on the surrounding tall weeds.

Excellent work with a 260mm focal length lens at 1/400 second.

Best Regards,  Mike

Scott...  Chasing the 3 Stooges around has fine tuned your trigger finger well.  Excellent shot.  I know how fast these deer can motor and how difficult it is to capture them... Mike

Thanks everyone.  I had been walking around all morning with a high iso to improve my chances of getting an action shot of wildlife if the situation presented itself.  I stopped in the middle of this open pasture to shoot a vulture perched in the tree row to my left.  I lowered the iso for a cleaner sky and shot it in full manual mode.  I still don't know why I even  bothered.  It was a perched vulture....how good of a pic could it have been.  Anyway, this deer instantly ran from the trees to my left and through my dogs that were about 10-20 yards in front of me and kept on booking through another 75 yards of open pasture.  So unfortunately, I didn't have the higher shutter speed that I wanted or what I would have had any other time that morning, but luckily the exposure was perfect, even with it set to manual for a bird in a tree, and I still had the focus set to servo.  The only bad thing is the face isn't as sharp as I would have liked when viewing the full size image, because of the slower shutter speed.  A couple of the shots in this series, the deer had a tack sharp face, but most weren't.  It was pretty strange that the deer did that, but being that time of year, I bet she had a pair of fawns close by and my dogs were getting close to them.  Hey, Mancil.....here's a pic of Curly(Winston) chasing it.:)

Very good shot

saludos de Mexico. JB

Wow!