Barking Deer #2

[Mrudul Godbole]

Photographed in BR hills, this is the same deer which Sabyasachi had posted earlier. It was quite near so I tried a close-up. It was raining and the light was bad. The shutter speed was quite low, so the fast movement of the ears can be seen in this image.

Canon 50D, 100-400mm L IS USM, ISO 400, f6.3, 1/15, hand held, full frame.

Comments and critiques welcome..

[Praveen Siddannavar]

Wow! the motion blur looks good, the head turn is nice. Considering the light conditions the image has come out well.
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[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice effect due to the slow shutter speed. One needs to keep on trying at low shutter speeds to get interesting motion blurs.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bhargava Srivari]

The motion blur creates nice feel. Wonder how the image would have shaped up if the SS was say 1/5! An abstract would be the result, probably..did you try it?

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[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice effect Mrudul. Do i see a tiny sore spot on the animals neck??? it could be an insect bite or something like that as well but the location is intriguing....Sambars ofcourse are known to have it.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Thanks all for the comments.

Roopak, nice observation, I had not noticed that. It does look like a sore spot. I don't think that is common in barking deers, unusual, will have to check.

Bhargava, No I didn't try any more compositions. I think 1/5 would have resulted in a shake. I was not very sure if the eye would be sharp even with 1/15 as that is quite low shutter speed for hand holding. If I was using a tripod I might have tried lower shutter speeds. Thanks for the comment.