Doe a deer a female deer...............

[Barbara Ponder]

Finding it really hard to find a good crop for this. CC welcome and appreciated.

[cuilin]

i like this one a lot, you've certainly captured the deer's attention.

[Barbara Ponder]

Thanks Beth!

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[FrankMi]

Such beautiful bright eyes!

[Barbara Ponder]

Thanks John and Frank.

[Ndukes]

Very nice. Look at those ears focus.

[Ziggy]

What big ears you have, nice.

[NorthernFocus]

Nice shot. The eyes are awesome and that's the most important thing in an image like this. The crop that you settled on works well IMO. Same issues with techs as on the bird shots but not quite as noticeable here because the eyes capture attention and fur tends to hide noise.

[Nicks Pics]

It appears to me that you took this one from RAW, but it looks like there was no color noise reduction applied, I usually never see a whole lot of it in my images because my raw converter (Lightroom) applies a little color noise reduction by default. This looks similar to how photos can look when color noise is turned off, (or it never was applied if you have an editor that doesn't apply any by default), or perhaps I am seeing the affect of very very high ISO. Either way, I think it could be cleaned up with some color noise reduction- I can try it for you if you'd like me to show you what I mean.

As for the picture. I like it. The crop I think works well, and you got a nice portrait.

[Geoff F]

There is some noise in the background but it was shot at Iso 200 so there wasn't a lot more you could do. This sometimes happens with dark backgrounds.

If all else fails, I usually run over the problem areas with a light soft edged Blur Brush.

[bnnrcn]

Lovely eyes, very nice image

[Barbara Ponder]

Thanks all for the comments. Nick, unfortunately I use Aperture software and their noise reduction is almost nil. I am not very good at PP and really need to work on it. This shot was a victim of my accidentally moving my compensation to -3 while focusing so I am hoping that was the cause for the noise which means I had to brighten a lot in PP. The shots I took yesterday seem to be better, or at least I hope so

[NorthernFocus]

...This shot was a victim of my accidentally moving my compensation to -3 while focusing so I am hoping that was the cause for the noise which means I had to brighten a lot in PP...

Well that will do it. Regardless of ISO setting, underexposure, particularly gross underexposure(-3 stops qualifies as gross) will cause noise particularly in the shadows. Those who test camera sensors post numbers for "signal to noise ratio" aka SNR at different ISO settings as one of the performance measures for sensors. But the SNR numbers quoted assume proper exposure. The "signal" side of SNR is the light falling on the sensor. The "noise" is random pixel values generated by the electronics. For a given ISO setting the noise is relatively constant. So even at ISO settings that show good test numbers in the lab at proper exposure, if you reduce the signal side of the equation and the noise remains constant, then the noise becomes more prominent. This shot demonstrates quite well how that works even at ISO 200 when under exposed by 3 stops.

As I said in a prior post, I'm really looking forward to seeing some of your work as you get more comfortable with your equipment.