Freaky Buck, Twighlight and the Ladies

[AtTheWall]

Finally managed to get some stick time with the new camera with old friends.


Super Freak Side View


Candid


Venado Grande Twighlight


The Eye


Fenceline Female


Marcia & Martha

[Sika]

Holy G2s Batman!

[TexaswBOWhunter]

Man, what do you charge to teach photography??? Great shots again... Thanks for sharing..

[Bill M]

As always Rob great ones. I'd like to hear a little method on the last shot if you don't mind sharing.

[bowhuntertex]

Some more great shots Amigo.......we gotta get together and take some more photo's on the Pedernales.....

[bowhuntertex]

Bill-that last photo looks like he used a spot filter......

[Bill M]

Bill-that last photo looks like he used a spot filter......

Lens Baby?

[Bluesman]

[jc207]

Great photos

[Hawg]

Dang! Well done my friend!

[AtTheWall]

Thanks guys!!!

This time of the year is kind of challenging to find things of color beyond tan or various hues of brown shooting wildlife shots afield. THE EYE is an example of a classic winter time field shot. Leaning on the lack of color throughout the shot.....I made this Doe's eye the center point....the only real color in the entire pic.

I checked out the Lensbaby lens line about a year ago and contemplated. 50mm fixed with manual aperture.... manually replacing plastic rings inside for each F stop change and decided I could lean elsewhere for similar effect. The new COMPOSER certainly looks like a step in the right direction, I might rethink it again now.

To get the Lensbaby type effect here's what I did. I shot this scene near a pretty bright window at f/2.8, leaning on as much BOKEH as I could get, with the girls inside within the softer light. I then aimed my focus point just slightly infront of the girls, both on the edge of BOKEHVILLE...giving them a softer...fuzzy look vs a hard sharp focus point. From there they indeed looked soft but I needed more.....so I leaned on Picasa 3.0 (Google's freeware photo editing download) to do the following steps:

* Converted image into B&W
* Used WARMIFY to soften more
* Finished with SOFT FOCUS aiming my main focus point on their faces (The Soft Focus) allowing the world around their faces to simply blur further

Lensbaby effect, sort of, without having to drop the coin on a Lensbaby to do so.

[AtTheWall]

A few from this evening. Wild Swans have managed to find a winter home here now. They are pretty cautious but tolerate me.

Nice to finally see some color in the winter Hills.....just around the corner before it's time.

The Old Long Beard



With his Younger Side-Kick



Winter Texan

[bowhuntertex]

Great shot on the long beard Rob......

[Kevin]

Nice ATW!

[TexaswBOWhunter]

Very nice again....