126/365 - Tim - Deer Family Portrait

(Moultrie Game Spy 5MP Camera)

My uncle Tim got this camera for Christmas. He strapped it to a tree along a heavily traveled trail and checked on it a week later to find this photo. He says:

It looks like a Mama and two little ones. The other deer looks like a buck that already shed his horns. It looks like they had a family portrait taken.

126/365 - Jim - Deer Silhouette

( f/7.1 56mm 1/125 sec ISO 200 Nikon D300 )

Theme is silhouette. Since my uncle is guest posting today and he sent me a photo of deer, I tried to come up with something to match it and still adhere to the theme. It was tough, but I did it. This is a cut out from black paper that I did while watching the Office taped on my DVR (hour long show). The background is something I painted and used behind some miniatures that a friend of mine painted. I put the cutout about 3 feet in front of the background and took some pictures making sure that my exposure was low enough to make the cutout completely black. Typically you would be able to see the sky clearly, but my painting is a bit sloppy, so I made it blurred by using a wider aperture. I touched it up a little in Paint Shop Pro because I accidentally cut off the tip of the one antler.