Helpful Posts: Pronghorn have very large eyes. They depend on good eyesight in open country to be aware of potential predators. But they are curious animals. If you sit down in the sagebrush and tie a white cloth to a stick and move it around over your head, pronghorn will often ease toward you to see what it is. Patience is required. Perhaps you can see the large eye on this buck pronghorn.
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17th January 2015, 05:29 AM #1
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17th January 2015, 09:29 AM #2
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Re: Pronghorn Buck
Very beautiful animal...!!! The horn looks strong and the ears aware as well as his eyes. I like the angle of your shot here...the horn matches well with the ears.
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17th January 2015, 11:23 AM #3
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Nice portrait.
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17th January 2015, 02:18 PM #4
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Beautiful. Well done.
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17th January 2015, 09:39 PM #5
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I'm quite sure I wouldn't have the patience for wildlife photography, but I sure do appreciate that others do. This is a lovely photo, and certainly elicited an "awww" from me as I opened it. The snowflakes give it that bit extra context too. Thanks for the background on how you facilitated it to happen, though I'm curious myself about the distance. What focal length were you shooting at?
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17th January 2015, 11:00 PM #6
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Thanks to all. Trace, I was shooting at 400 mm. fl
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18th January 2015, 12:24 AM #7
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That is a lot of bright whites do deal with, you did well.
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18th January 2015, 01:11 AM #8
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A nice shot to be sure, Chuck. Interesting about using their curiosity to lure them into shooting range. They definitely have some big eyes. I'd never noticed before that they have "Spock ears".
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18th January 2015, 06:50 PM #9
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Jim, When you live in Jackson Hole you have a least five months of snow to deal with in most of your shots. I use matrix metering and push for .3 to 1.3 stops, depending on the ambient light. Trying to avoid gray snow. I still try to "Expose To The Right", so my histogram registers to the right without blowing out the whites.
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18th January 2015, 06:52 PM #10
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Re: Pronghorn Buck
Originally Posted by NorthernFocus
Dan, I want to be clear that I did not use a "lure" on these shots. I just judged where the pronghorn would be walking, parked my car and waited.
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