Gerald Kelberg
BPN Member
Hi Guys,
Last week I suddenly found myself with a free day in the Netherlands so took a quick trip to the High Veluwe National Park. During September there is a daily evening feeding ritual that brings the hinds and stags into the open. It is a lot of fun and can yield some nice images but there is no pretending this is a hard won struggle with nature to get them. The biggest difficulty is getting a relatively clean background.
Nevertheless, this is a pleasing, but very conventional image of a fine stag that has just been wallowing in the mud. Beautiful rack and he seemed to have a very large harem with no challengers.
The shot was with the Sony A9II, FE200-600 lens plus 1.4x converter to give 840mm. Tripod mounted, 1/1000 sec at f/9.0 with ISO 2000.
Post production entailed Enhance feature in Lr, removed two distracting bright branches in the background, adjusted the tonality, sharpened in Lr then output to size and USM in PS.
I look forward to your thoughts and comments,
Gerald