Shaun the sheep & Co

An Exception · 17 May 2012 at 00:36

Had my camera in the car on the way to my parents house, so stopped on the way there and back, and decided to take a few quick pictures of some sheep that were in the field...

I presume this guy was the alpha sheep, as it starred at me for ages, came pretty close, and stamped it's feet, at one point I was pretty nervous as I though it was going to charge!
Alpha sheep also features in No. 6 & 7

An Exception · 17 May 2012 at 01:03

^^^
You just need to watch out for the alpha sheep!

An Exception · 17 May 2012 at 01:52

Lol, I was going to name this thread Jeepers Sheepers!
Apart from alpha sheep, the others were quite friendly, although most liked to keep their distance, which made it hard considering my 85 is the longest lens I have, but some seemed quite sociable with each other.

An Exception · 17 May 2012 at 11:33

Cheers guys glad you liked them.

@ Dup

"Thinking about it I'm gutted I've missed the lambs playing king of the hill etc"

I'v never seen this before, but then again this was the first time I ever really got close to sheep, I was surprised to see the difficulty young lambs have walking...

@ log1k
I must admit, I am a bit of a bokeh whore as it's not often I choose to stop down a little...

@ ATC
At first I thought something was wrong with it, it kept thrashing around on it's back, then lying still, then the lamb would try to feed and get hoofed by it's mum thrashing around, it was almost like it couldn't get up. So I moved closer to see if the sheep was actually distressed or not, I saw it's tail which fooled me briefly into thinking it was giving birth, so moved closer and closer to get a better look at what was actually going on.

Eventually the sheep saw me, and then hopped on it's feet quickly, which was a bit of a relief tbh...

An Exception · 17 May 2012 at 23:21

Thanks maaaaaaan!

An Exception · 18 May 2012 at 12:54

Phate said:
I forgot to comment on Le photos.

Nice work dude, I really like this set, very different

baaaaaaaaa!

Thanks Jacob

Phate said:
****! Beaten like a ginger step child! I scanned through this thread hoping I could make that comment!

Didn't you used to sport a certain 'strawberry blond' do?

An Exception · 18 May 2012 at 14:21

Maybe this will help...

sooc + 2/3 Exposure bump

Processed

An Exception · 18 May 2012 at 14:52

It's sharp as well, even into the corners at 1.4, although the AF needs to be accurate/consistent to get a half decent keeper rate at such shallow DOF's, which it seems to be when paired with my D700.

100% crop at rule of thirds, no sharpening applied etc.
As you can see, 1 inch +/- would be OOF