Hi Paul,
I did shoot some vertical but the light was low and none of them were very sharp.
http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/deer2.html
You are probably right about the framing, but I try to shoot vertically as little as possible because I find it doesn't fit into most of my applications very well.
Since I usually try not to have my subject looking out of the frame, and she had a bit of a potbelly (spends a lot of time in the neighbor's garden), it seemed to be the best way to deal with the situation.
I live on Cortes island, which is about four hours on three ferries, plus some five hours by car from Vancouver Canada. It is quite a nice little community.
By the way "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." :-P
Thanks for the comments,
Francis
p.s. sorry if you already received This. It didn't show up in my mail box so I'm sending it for the second time.
>At 12:50 AM 1/13/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>
>It's a little soft, but not horribly so. I think I would have shot this as a vertical to fill the frame and see a bit more of the >deer. On what island do you live? That sounds like an interesting lifestyle.
>Paul
>>
>> On the island where I live the white tailed deer have, for lack of
>> predators, shrunk to be scarcely bigger than most goats. They also seem to
>>have developed the knack of waiting at the side of the road for cars to
>> pass (a quality I haven't seen in deer anywhere else), rather than leaping
>> out in front of the approaching vehicle, which may have something to do
>> with them being so numerous here.
>>
>> This one and a few others came to my yard almost every day during the fall
>> to eat the apples that I put out for them, but they usually come at dusk,
>> so I have a lot of blurry photos of them.
>>
>> http://www.photosynth.ca/photo/f/deer.html
>> P3n, K200/2.5, Wobble-O-Matic tripod, cheap 100 iso print film.
>>
>>
>> All comments appreciated
>>
>> Francis
>>
