thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 1月7日 03時09分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Red deer in a pine forest - I’ve never processed this image before, even though I took it some 6-7 years ago! I’d love to have legitimate reason why I’ve overlooked but I don’t really. Perhaps if anything the second deer behind the other is the most obvious flaw but the background trees alone should have been enough for me to see the potential. I’m not sure either by the tree that’s running down the left hand side of the image but when I crop it out the image seems to lose something, not least a slither of the beautifully shaped tree that sits in the top right corner. ‘If in doubt, don’t’ is always my mantra when it comes to cropping or not but as always I do so appreciate your candour on all matters that I’d love to know your own thoughts. When I was preparing my recent competition submission for Wildlife Photographer of the Year I showed, as I always do, my wife because honesty is what she does best. One image in particular she scoffed at, an obvious flaw to her had been left in but to me that flaw was an extra dimension. It stayed, as is the dark, mysteriously snow free tree that frames this image. The conditions as I’ve mentioned before were exceptional but as with all of my images that day I underexposed them, my histogram ignorance of the time costing me deer, but only by about 1 stop of light. For me this image is ALL about the backdrop, those beautifully shaped trees that back onto a clearing in the forest, enough to let the billowing snow cascade in, coating their trunks and adding subtlety to the shapes and textures. Of course I’d prefer it if that second bloody deer wasn’t trying to hide but it is what it is, nature can be a troublesome rogue sometimes but this the joy. I still think that perhaps this image shouldn’t have stayed hidden for so long, I’d consider it as a New Years’ resolution but that would be a delusion too far, I’ll never change!

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