Cades Cove, always interesting fun

Lex

Here's one I didn't expect, a pair of huge red heads, attacking trees in tandom. I never quite got both of them still, and was not close enough for flash. (200-400VR 4.0 lens on D2X)



she was a real cutie, with personality. I loved how the sun brightened above her right eye in shot 2. I have several others to process and choose from, time was limited the evening of the shoot.

Maestro

I like the shot of the pileated woodpeckers. One is in focus and the other has the motion blur. It makes for an interesting shot. The deer is cute, but I bet the pics would be even better if you would brighten them up a bit in PS.

raptorcaptor

Like the first shot alot!

Lex

raptorcaptor wrote:

Like the first shot alot!

Thanks on the woodpeckers.

yeah, my monitor sucks at home, it seems what seems normal there, doesn't seem normal at work. Looks like I am going to have to try my other monitor for more critical editing. I'll give that a look and see if I can do that without giving up my crappy widescreen for normal viewing. Then again, maybe just give up on it.

Lex

Oh, one more point on the woodpeckers, I had 2 photographers leading in front of me with small lenses. Had I not got my 200-400VR on, I probably would have got nothing, because as you can expect, the short lens photographers encroaching a target will run it off EVERY time. I could probably have gotten close enough to have a very large 12 mpx version of them with the 400mm. But instead, I got a lot of background too. Which the 200-400VR has most excellent bokeh, but you know...

I could crop some, but decided to just show them like they were taken.