Hi Paul,
I did shoot some vertical but the light was low and none of them were very sharp.
http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/deer2.html
You are probably right about the framing, but I try to shoot vertically as little as possible because I find it doesn't fit into most of my applications very well.
Since I usually try not to have my subject looking out of the frame, and she had a bit of a potbelly (spends a lot of time in the neighbor's garden), it seemed to be the best way to deal with the situation.
I live on Cortes island, which is about four hours on three ferries, plus some five hours by car from Vancouver Canada. It is quite a nice little community.
By the way "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." :-P
Thanks for the comments,
Francis
At 12:50 AM 1/13/2005 +0000, you wrote:
It's a little soft, but not horribly so. I think I would have shot this as a vertical to fill the frame and see a bit more of the deer. On what island do you live? That sounds like an interesting lifestyle.
Paul
> > On the island where I live the white tailed deer have, for lack of > predators, shrunk to be scarcely bigger than most goats. They also seem to > have developed the knack of waiting at the side of the road for cars to > pass (a quality I haven't seen in deer anywhere else), rather than leaping > out in front of the approaching vehicle, which may have something to do > with them being so numerous here. > > This one and a few others came to my yard almost every day during the fall > to eat the apples that I put out for them, but they usually come at dusk, > so I have a lot of blurry photos of them. > > http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/deer.html > P3n, K200/2.5, Wobble-O-Matic tripod, cheap 100 iso print film. > > > All comments appreciated > > Francis >
