Equidistant, again

To drive home the point I made in yesterday's blog, I photographed these two black tailed deer fawns in Ft. Rodd Hill State Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  This was taken with a medium format film camera (Mamiya RZ 67) and a 350mm lens many years ago.  That meant depth of field was extremely shallow, and in the relatively low light of this late afternoon I was shooting wide open -- f/5.6 on this lens.  That meant that in order to have both animals in focus, I had to wait until both of them moved such that they were equidistant to the camera.  Only then would both of them be sharp. Sometimes this works out and sometimes it doesn't.  Animals as well as people don't always cooperate with photographers.  By being aware of the principles, though, you can look for that one moment when it all comes together.