I’m sure like most DSLR users; we take too many pictures and really don’t have time to review them all. Last weekend, I was visiting with my brothers and decided to take a ride into the woods. I went to take pictures of a field of flowers that my brother said was amazing a few weeks ago when he was there. Well, as spring flowers go, they were all gone so we just went blazing through the woods. As we were on a trial, my one brother spotted a deer off in the distance. Armed with my 70-200 + 1.4 extender, I grabbed three shots and then thought I could go out of the vehicle for a better angle.
Here is the original shot:
As soon as I exited the vehicle off went the deer so we just continued on our way… now back at the cottage, I went to process the RAW files – Deleted two of the three pictures from lightroom. Cropped it so I only saw the deer and gave it a one star. Why a one – because of things I the foreground. Closed lightroom and forgot about it.
When I got to work on Monday, I thought I would show some people other shots I took so opened up lightroom to process a few to make JPG’s. Got to the deer picture and adjusted some of the controls and all of a sudden what I thought was a tree / stick, was amazing. Now this has been elevated to 5 stars only because of content. I then went back to the two I deleted to see if there was anything else to see did save one but it is blurry.
So the moral of the story is to make sure you look around at your pictures as there might be a diamond in the rough. These could have landed on the "darkroom floor" the little photographer on my shoulder must have wispered something in my ear.
I only wish I have my 400 2.8 ii with me at the time, I proably would have saw it at the time of shooting, but then I would have 100's of pictures to sort through.
