Today’s Post by Joe Farace
A confession: I am not now or have ever been what most people would consider a nature photographer. But living here on Daisy Hill sometimes nature comes to me.
Nature photography is a wide-open genre of photography that encompasses many different kinds of images of the natural world ranging from images of landscapes to wildlife. Along the way there are sub-specialties such as bird and insect photography or mammal photography of everything from prairie dogs to elk. There are even sub-sub specialties such as moth and butterfly photography and these pursuits all have several things in common: They often require some kind of specialized equipment but they always demand lots of patience.
I’m hardly a wildlife photographer but sometimes a subject just walks into your backyard, as was the case with this young mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) that I photographed (below), literally, in my actual backyard.
How I Made this Shot: Several times a day individual and groups of mule deer stroll leisurely across Daisy Hill on their way to find nourishment, including munching on my landscaping.
I started photographing this critter while standing on the sidewalk in front of my house with Tamron’s 14-150mm Di III Micro Four-thirds lens (at 150mm) slowly walking toward her until I made this particular shot and a few more until she jumped over the fence that’s behind her. Exposure with an Olympus OM-D EM-10 Mark I was 1/320 sec at f/6.3 and ISO 400.
A zoom range of 14-150mm may not seem like a big deal until you realize that on the Micro Four-thirds format it produces the same angle-of-view as a 28-300mm lens but weighs less than ten ounces and is 3.3-inches long. When comparing it to my Canon EOS system, an EF 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM lens weighs 3.67 pounds and is 7.2-inches long.
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