Low light deer advice please?

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Hi All,

I have located a lovely herd of young deer near me who feed at dusk in a local field.

I would love to try and get some shots of these animals but am really struggling with the low light at this time of the evening.

As there is a fallen oak tree in the hedge I can get reasonably close and could probably get a good picture with a 400 lens. My only lens at this focal length is a Sigma 5.6 which I'm currently using with a Nikon D90....

Any advice on low light nature photography / settings etc would be gratefully received....

Many thanks in advance

Higgy
 
Widest aperture you can get providing your happy with the D of F.
Lowest shutter speed before camera shake creeps in, this is down to you though- I would suggest a monopod, unless of course the deer are moving!
Then you only have the iso to worry about, but this is dependent on how the D90 handles noise.

In summary:
Widest aperture you can go
Slowest s/speed before camera shake
Highest iso before it gets too noisy

Hence a 400mm f2.8VR + D3s would be your perfect combo in this situation

steve.
 
Just up the ISO and make sure you expose to the right (ETTR - have a search on that), as long as you're not pixel peeping, you ETTR, shoot RAW and have some decent noise reduction software ISO 1600 is perfectly acceptable for A4 prints, even ISO3200 is ok.
 
With the D90 you'll be fine to 3200. I'd start at 1600 and see how you get on.

As mentioned, keep it wide open (unless you can get away with 1 stop down at 1600) and try to shoot at the peak of activity. Also, put the camera on continuous high to get a couple frames at a clip. One should be sharp enough.

thanks
rick
 
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