Each year in late May, a deer who frequets our property drops a fawn and has it hide in the ferns (we recently had a bear twist our wrought iron bird feeder supports into curley Qs and coyotes, eagles (bald and the occasional golden), owls and hawks hunt in and around our property along the Delaware River in the Catskill mountains. It seems each year as I am caring for our property in late May, I stumble upon a newly born (days old at most) beauty:-) Sony a92 Sony GM 135 f2.0 ISO 800 1/3200 There were two challenges to this shot that I recognized at the moment: first, not spooking the fawn. Some say Momma tell sthe fawn not to move. Well, like most kids they do not listen. The day before I also saw and photographed the fawn. Both days I was 20 - 30 feet away. On the first day, the fawn was fine until (not moving forward at all) I went to get on my belly and it got up and ran away. THis shot was the next day. A belly shot would not have worked (front ferns would have blocked the fawn), so I changed views vertically and horizontally, slowly adjusting position. Relatively relaxed, the sedentary and cooperative fawn allowed me to consider the photograph as I worked the scene as best I knew how. Second, i knew that this image would be achallemnge in post as the fawn hid in shadows but the front ferns were in strong light. Thankfully Lightroom really does have some great tools that allowed me to get at least this far with the image.
