Pronghorn, a la Bokeh

This pronghorn presented a little bit of an unusual opportunity. Usually when shooting wildlife I am trying to position myself so that I get a nice, blurred out background of a uniform color (preferably a dark background, as well).
But in this instance, I was able to get the foreground blurred out, as well. This was due to the presence of some sage brush that was 2 or 3 feet tall, placed nicely between me and the pronghorn. It was far enough out in front of him that I was able to blur it out. I thought it gave a very different look to this image, as the pronghorn seems to just appear out of nowhere in the middle of the frame.

I was at f4. Unfortunately, I was also at ISO 400, which is my "normal" setting. A frame or two later I switched to ISO 100, but I wasn't pleased with the composition of those images (the pronghorn had moved a few steps).

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Another great image Tom. I like the effect you were able to capture here.
Bob

I like that effect, too. I sometimes get that when shooting birds around the lake. Bushes on the shore partially hide them, but get blurred out. The bushes also help hide me from the birds.

Nice work again Tom.

I too got a similar effect on a Kingfisher once. He was sitting on a fence post and there was a stopbank with grass on it between us. The end result was him and the very top of the fence post in sharp focus and (as you say) FG, BG and SG ( sideground .... I might have just invented a new photographic term ... ) blurred out really nicely.

Matt.

Excellent image Tom....I like this too!

Nice capture Tom.......

Nice Job on the composition, I have a somewhat similar picture I have hanging on the wall and get compliments on it all the time.

Tom, this is another great shot to add to the collection.

Love the front and back Bokeh