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Description

I caught this pose of a young fawn out back recently. I like that it was looking at me but I wish that it wasn’t standing so near that large, dark tree trunk.

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I’m thinking the subject commands enough attention to overlook the trunk being there. Does the square crop work here?

Technical Details

Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, monopod, 1/1250th, f 8.5, 420mm, ISO 14400, cropped to 5787 x 5504.

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I like this. I agree that the “gesture” outweighs any negatives with regard to the tree. However I would remove the twigs around the back leg and correct for the color cast.

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You may make it more vertical.
Cloning marks are visible in thr BG.

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Great composition, can’t always depend on a clean background. I think the high ISO hurt the image, I tried sharpening and denoise, but it did not help much. Been there done that myself.