Who likes big bucks and rams?

[Curly]

Looks like that third one is starving to death, wonder if his stomach flipped on him??

I think all the nourishment and growth is going directly into his gonads.   

  ;

[popeshawnpaul]

LOVE that second shot.   Ridiculously good.  wow

 
I think that is the one I would use for my avatar...

That sick ram looks like he's part camel...  Any idea what was wrong with him?

I would use it for my avatar but I recognize people's posts on here quickly by the avatar.  When you change it it would throw me off.  I'll stick with my old standby but I know what you mean.  I love that ram.  He might still be alive and he is in the 190's.  I'm going to go see if I can find him in the bison range here sometime in the future.  I doubt he made it another year though. 

I don't know what was wrong with that sick sheep.  It was August so there was plenty of food but he looked bad.

[popeshawnpaul]

Here is a fun couple of photos.  The first one is of a buck I was shooting pictures of.  The second is a picture of me shooting this buck.  The buck is about 50 yards out just to the left of the white camera lens. 

[Pathfinder101]

That's a cool series Pope.  Love that buck.

[tlbradford]

Great shots Shawn. 

[cully]

Great shots! You are very talented.

[popeshawnpaul]

Thanks.  I had my cell phone out while shooting this buck and Huntnphool called.  I thought I would take a picture of my camera screen showing the big buck and send it to him via text message.  I couldn't figure out how to send the picture so I just forgot about it.  I found it on my phone the other day and scrounged up the picture of the buck in the screen. 

[huntnphool]

Just curious Shawn, why would you underexpose the the pic and yet shoot it at 400 ISO? Why wouldn't you just drop the ISO to 200 or 100, wouldn't that give you the same result but less noise?

[bowhunter1972]

awsome pic's thank you

[Slider]

Pope, I think you should use that Ewe with the tag in her ear for your Avatar!!!...........................

[popeshawnpaul]

Just curious Shawn, why would you underexpose the the pic and yet shoot it at 400 ISO? Why wouldn't you just drop the ISO to 200 or 100, wouldn't that give you the same result but less noise?

This shot is at ISO 400, f4.5, 1/500th of a second.  If I had dropped my ISO to 200, the aperture priority settings would have adjusted the shutter speed to 1/250th.  That is fine but I like 1/500th to ensure a sharp photo.  Because the buck is sitting in the shade, the camera was trying to compensate by making the dark foreground/buck too bright.  When I underexpose the shot a half a stop it made the buck darker and balanced the shot better.  If the shot wasn't underexposed by -.5 then the shutter speed would have been 1/350th.  Even if I drop the iso to 200 I still have to tell the meter to underexpose by a half a stop.  The meters aren't accurate all the time as they try and bright objects dark and dark objects bright.  Hopefully that makes sense? 

Also, remember I was in aperture priority so the camera will compensate the exposure when I make changes to the ISO.  Had I been in Manual mode then changing the ISO would have affected the exposure. 

[tlbradford]

That's great.  I start to think I am coming close to figuring out this photography stuff, and Shawn post something like this.     This is like coyote hunting.  Everytime you think you have things figured out a little bit, you get smacked upside the head with some more knowledge that makes you realize what a greenhorn you still are.

Thanks for the lesson Pope.  That is very helpful to someone like me.   

A couple more questions.  Do you use landscape mode for most of your wildlife shots?  What were your WB settings or do you adjust that in PP if needed.

[Tom Reichner]

  This is like coyote hunting.  Everytime you think you have things figured out a little bit, you get smacked upside the head with some more knowledge that makes you realize what a greenhorn you still are.

And it never stops!  That "greenhorn" feeling, I mean.  There's always so much out there to learn.  At times we need to just enjoy what we do know and not stress too much about the rest.

[huntnphool]

you get smacked upside the head with some more knowledge that makes you realize what a greenhorn you still are.

Do you use landscape mode for most of your wildlife shots?

 LOL, get reay for that slap upside the head He shoots primarily "Av" or aperture priority, never ever in "program" mode or auto, "landscape"

[popeshawnpaul]

A couple more questions.  Do you use landscape mode for most of your wildlife shots?  What were your WB settings or do you adjust that in PP if needed.

That's a great question tbrad.  I don't think you mean the landscape mode with the mountain on the mode dial on top of the camera.  I use Av or aperture priority for 95% of what I do.  I think you mean landscape mode in the picture styles menu.  To answer the question...heck no.  Here is why.  It just bumps the contrast and saturation on the photo before you put it on lightroom or your raw editing program.  It also sharpens!!!  I hate the in camera sharpen as it is awful.  I have nearly ruined some photos that I had to change the style in canon raw editing programs to fix that way.  Keep your picture style on neutral or do a custom profile where it does nothing to your photos.  The editing programs like photoshop do a much better job at sharpening photos.  If you have a picture style that sharpens then you are bound for bad sharpened photos. 

With WB I just shoot auto.  I gets half the shots right and the other half I just change on lightroom.  I find that canon's wb settings are too warm for my liking.  Good luck tbrad.