This is another shot from my weekend drive along Bandipur, to Kozhikode and back to Bengaluru / Bangalore. Found this spotted deer female, just next to the Bandipur sanctuary office and she had no problem staying just a couple of meters away from me and stare!

Infact, she was standing too close for the telephoto lens I had on the camera. She watched me curiously, while I changed to Canon EF 180mm f/3.5L (macro) lens! Even the 180mm was too close for a full frame and this is the widest frame I could get. As usual, I used the Av mode, no tripod and the car's window glass as support. Since, the light was fading fast, I bumped up ISO to 800 and got 1/200s @ f/3.5.

Guess, she was looking for something to eat and unfortunately I had nothing good to give her. After a while, she got bored and walked away.

I had experimented a bit with GIMP and adjusted the contrast curve for an altogether higher contrast. Guess, in the process I might have lost the original colors. I am not an expert in post processing and is looking forward for comments from post processing experts and tips on the same :)