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Skylar McMahon
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Posted: July/03/2014 at 15:58 |
Here's some pictures that I took while out with Rifledude one afternoon.
I was using: Nikon D7000 Body Nikon 70-200mm f/4G ED VR Nikkor Zoom Lens Some of these have a lot of noise, which is my fault. When I received the camera I was toying with the settings. Meanwhile, I set the auto ISO and when I did, it was put on High 2. After talking with Ted, we discovered this is like 26,000 ISO. Thus the noisy imagery. After looking at them, it's not bad if you are looking at the image with artistic point of view because it appears as a canvas shot. None the less, here's the images. The twelfth picture was my favorite to shoot. It's unfortunate that is didn't turn out like the rest. It's not often that you come across three Alpha looking whitetail deer congregated together. These are going to be some huge deer come Oct. / Nov. They hung around for a short time allowing Ted and I to photograph them, but then lost the sense of safety and decided to exit back into the dense woods.
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Skylar McMahon
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RifleDude
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Way cool! Considering the fact the ISO was 12,800 and after seeing the huge amount of noise in the original RAW files, I think the noise reduction in post worked remarkably well!
You should post the pics you took of the deer we saw on the side of the road outside Lake Somerville State park too. |
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Ted
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Peddler
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S**t, only in my dreams. Thanks guys pics are super!
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Skylar McMahon
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Prior to the shots above, Ted and I drove around Somerville Park looking for some deer to take pictures of. We drove around the entire park and didn't see anything because the park was packed. But as the sun made it's descent, and while we made our exit, these two were on the side of the road feeding. These were shot with a Nikon D800 Body. The lens was Nikon Nikkor
300mm f/4D IF ED with a Nikon TC-14EII (1.4X) teleconverter attached. |
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RifleDude
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Those pics turned out great! Very sharp, and you can see every little hair on the antler velvet!
Looks like the doe was shedding her coat. |
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Ted
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Bitterroot Bulls
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Nice shots!
I got some wildlife shots this week. Is there a July contest? |
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-Matt
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Skylar McMahon
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Thanks Matt.
Not yet. We still have one more day of voting. The winner will choose what July's contest shall be. |
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Skylar McMahon
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No kidding. The lens you are using, combine with your camera body capture some amazing pictures. I was explaining to Lovie last night when taking pictures at my son's tee ball game, with the new lens that I want, compared to the one I have, there is a noticeable difference with how well they work together. |
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Bigdaddy0381
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white tail!!!!!
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Excellent depth of field and detail!
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Skylar McMahon
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Update Matt. Photo contest is Summer images. |
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Skylar McMahon
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Honestly this was a quick point and shoot. I was using Ted's camera and we were driving by. I didn't make any adjustments and with the focal length I was just trying to locate this youngster in the view finder. But thank you. |
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RifleDude
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The camera was set at f/5.6, which at 420mm (300mm lens x 1.4 due to the teleconverter), blurred the background nicely to make the deer really stand out.
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Ted
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Bitterroot Bulls
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Ted,
I am saving for a lens, as I have discussed. The 70-200 f4 and 300 f4 are my finalists. Reach is important, as it is for wildlife primarily, but the amazing VR of the 70-200 had me leaning that way. Having both, what do you think? |
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-Matt
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RifleDude
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Hi, Matt, I'll give you my thoughts on that when I get home tomorrow. Posting with my cell phone is much more cumbersome for my big, clumsy fingers.
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Ted
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Bitterroot Bulls
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No hurry Ted, I still have plenty of saving to do.
Maybe they will release the 300 f4 VRIII while I am waiting. |
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-Matt
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Bitterroot Bulls
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Here is a wildlife pic I took this week:
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Skylar McMahon
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Wow!!!!
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