Broke out the new Camera!!!

[M_ray]

Ok so it's not so new but I finally got a chance to shoot something other than my kids with the 20D I bought just before Christmas!  I was driving home Friday night after work and I spotted some elk at a niehbors back in some timber looking as if they wanted to come out and feed. By the time I got home grabbed the camera & kids I headed back down the block some were just coming out.

It looked like 8 or so back in the brush but only 5 would eventually come out into the open, I didn't see any horn but I was just chompin at the bit to practice.











So you pro's Pope,Phool,Bone,Elkman,Ricochet & others Fire away!!! I allready know what I did wrong on some of these and for everyone else out there let me tell you this is not as easy as these guy's make it look!!! I took 90 pictures in 10 minutes just to get thses few marginal shots before some lady stopped with her point and shoot and got out of her car and yelled " Oh so you have the fancy big lens!!!"  That ran them right out of the field in a hurry!

I made them bigger and added this one ~

[cohoho]

Where were these elk when the late season was going on???   

[M_ray]

These were very close to your house Mike!!! lets call them the pit herd if you know what I mean!!! 

[huntnphool]

They look good to me Mark, just to small of files to get a close look. Way to go, its going to get addicting

[M_ray]

They look good to me Mark, just to small of files to get a close look. Way to go, its going to get addicting

I had them bigger at first and shrunk them down ... what size do you generaly make them to post on here or a web forum?

[popeshawnpaul]

Yeah, I especially like the one with the barb wire fence in the background.  So natural looking...   

Who taught you how to resize those?  They are a bit small.  Try 800 pixels wide.

Hey, you are in the game.  Now it's about getting out and doing it. 

[M_ray]

Who taught you how to resize those?  They are a bit small.  Try 800 pixels wide.

That would be you and the other night while I heard you making yourself a cocktail you forgot to tell me how to do it before hanging up!  My teacher is so lame sometimes!!! 

[huntnphool]

There you go

[Slider]

They look good. But next time try to get photo's of the ones with horns!!!..........

[M_ray]

They look good. But next time try to get photo's of the ones with horns!!!..........

I hear ya I am just getting started and I needed something to shoot to start playing with Photoshop, uploading, hearing advice ect ... This was my first time out ,I'll be looking for better subjects in the future ...  I guess Cow elk are not all that exciting for most people.  I was excited, but then again I prefer Elk over all other big game so maybe it's just me.

[Hornseeker]

Dang, those jungle elk are dark!
What lens do you have Ray..

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[M_ray]

Dang, those jungle elk are dark!
What lens do you have Ray..

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It's a Tokina 400mm ... I will have sharper pics when I get a bit more expierience. You can see on a couple of the that my focus was set on the Elks rump and not the head so the butt is in perfect focus but the head is a bit fuzzy. That's why I said it's not as easy as these guy's (Pope,Phool,Elkman ect...) make it look! Aslo the first two on here I took without a tripod because I started to draw a crowd and I thought they would bolt before I could get any pics at all, Once I got a few I set it up and got a bit better results ... I have a long way to go I'll just need some more practice!