Oh dear!!

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Description

My wife and I, visiting from Canada, were leaving John Chestnut Park, Tarpon Lake FL. when we spotted this dear.

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I need critique on sharpness.

Technical Details

Nikon Z5, 24-200mm lens, manual mode, auto focusing (back button), settings: 200mm, f6.3, 1/200s, ISO not provided on tablet, guessing 400.

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Good look at this doe Donald. I think you may have cropped this quite a bit and lost some of the detail. Some of the grass and the palm fronds are pretty bright and you might want to burn them back a bit too.

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Thanks for the kind remarks. Yes, I did crop, no doubt too much. Need a longer lens.

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An interesting one. seems like you might have shot in the later hours of the day - earlier in the morning or nlater afternoon might serve you better. Besides the crop, I would look for better engagement woth the viewer - the angle of the head, more specifically