Fawns hiding.

I was thrilled when the sun popped out and backlit the plants behind

these two little critters. It really made my day!

Delightful capture. How sweet they are. Twins! What a wonderful thing. It would sure make my day to get a shot like that!

Dear Leonard,

 

You asked for my opinion about this one, so here you go. Seems like you have focused your camera a bit behind them, thus everything is quite soft except for the foreground. To be pedantic, WB should be a bit warmer, and the distracting elements of the foreground shouldn't have been included in the composition, especially the leaves in front of the eye of the one on the right. I guess you didn't really have the time to consider the composition, I understand. Still, it's far from flawless. And a technical issue: I don't know whether on purpouse or unintended, but the large version is way too great. If you resize it, it would be easier to view.

 

There are good news as well, of course: This one is a LOT better than the above critiques show. There's of course more to it than just critiques. I'd say it's a 4/4, a typically average capture of a fortunate scene.

 

Btw you asked for my opinion, I hope you don't mind me being honest.

 

Best regards,

Mark

 

 

The foreground elements are supposed to be there, it's called framing

the image and the OOF branch bottom is another concept called DOF.

 

It makes the shot more interesting as if you are peering into the hidden

sanctuary of these babies. In fact I had to move around to get this

perspective since the other view was kind of boring.

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7478151 <=== less appealing view

 

Otherwize it would seem to me it was a shot taken at a zoo or some other perfectly controlled environment.

 

I would love to see some of your work so I can learn more.

 

Leonard

Oh well, if you had a reason to compose te shot like this then I don't think I should try to reason against your concept. I'm really not here to convince anyone that their photographic concepts are good or bad - who am I to judge that. :) Btw the softness I mentioned has nothing to do with DOF. I meant that the fawns are a bit OOF. And framing an image like this - even if it was your intention - seems more like a mistake than a concept to me. And the leaves covering the left eye was probably not even part of the concept anyway, was it?

yes I really do like framing that way, couple recent examples

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7388360

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7147231

 

here is some shots that I totally rejected, and hey, these are wild animals...

the little buggers do move so the leaf was over it's eye, not much you can do about it. kinda lends authenticity to the whole image.

 

whaddaya gonna do eh? I got off about 10 shots then they spooked and ran away.