Deer at Richmond Park

I don't take many wildlife photos but I'm pretty happy with this one.

Taken at Richmond Park, London, UK.

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Drive through the park many times but I've never seen as many deer as you've captured. Love the way the sun rays are coming down.

I think a larger pic would give more detail and would look awesome. Forum rules are that the longer side should be no longer than 800.

Thanks for that. I edited the original to include a larger 800 px version.

Stunning Wabbitt, have you tried adding more contrast to see how it looks? Just a thought.

Looks even better wabbit! Stunning picture!

I think i agree with Attic.. a little more contrast may help it a little bit.

Thanks guys. Wildlife isn't really my thing. I took this (and a bunch of others) whilst out walking my dog and I liked the outcome.

I'll give the contrast tweek a go!

OK. After you recommendation I've tweaked the contrast slightly. I had to use GIMP as I don't have Photoshop on this particular machine.

I noticed tweaking the contrast the the bit of lens flare I had is pronounced a bit more.

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Nice work Wabbitt I think it's given it a bit more depth. Print and hang now.

Superb shot! The lighting in this one is incredible!

Wonderful photo!! I really like how the sun is coming through the tree branches.

Very nice ~

Beautiful shot. I love the mood. I wonder how this would work in sepia?

Ah, my old childhood stamping ground, the days I spent walikng and cycling around that park and collecting edible chestnuts. Even did my A biology level project with permission of the Park authorities....crikey that was a long time ago

A lovely well seen scene. I have tweaked it slightly in CS2 - used USM LCE settings and a little Smart Sharpening

Hope that is OK

you should send to Richmond & twickenham Times - sort of shot they like to publish on the letters page (no fee unfortunately).

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Ah, my old childhood stamping ground, the days I spent walikng and cycling around that park and collecting edible chestnuts. Even did my A biology level project with permission of the Park authorities....crikey that was a long time ago

A lovely well seen scene. I have tweaked it slightly in CS2 - used USM LCE settings and a little Smart Sharpening

Hope that is OK

Thanks for that. You have added something to this. I must be honest I don't normally go for this type of shot because I'm more of a portrait person, but when I saw it I just took the camera out of the bag, hid in behind a tree to try and stop the sun glaring at me so much and took some shots.

@ racketman: I'll do that! I had one photo published in the Brentford, Chiswick times before actually. It was a fire on one of the riverboats there. It was 3am in the morning and I took some ISO 3200 shots which made the front page. I was pretty chuffed. Again.... no fee! pah.