Fox (c)

Gallery: WildlifePosted November 14, 2010178 views7 comments

This is Frodo, taken at the British Wildlife Centre in England.

I shot it through a chain-link fence which I managed to make invisible by pressing the lens hood right into it, using a wide aperture and waiting until the fox was far away.

Sony A350
Sigma 50-500 EX
1/320th second
f6.3
ISO 400
200mm
-0.3 stop exposure compensation
Hand held

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by JACK NEAL on November 14, 2010 at 2:54 PM

Good picture! Great detail and color. Wish I had taken this one! Thanks!

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Comment posted by John Tobias on November 14, 2010 at 10:32 PM

Very nice, perhaps a bit of adjusting where the lower left side teeth blend into the white fur, so the teeth stand out more. Thanks for sharing, very nice portrait.

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on November 15, 2010 at 9:30 AM

Hi Geoffrey,

Very sweet light and that tongue-curl is just great! Good job on overcoming the issue presented by the chain-link fence. While this isn't the kind of image I'd personally want to hang on my wall, I really like it. A very minor issue: it looks to me like the white fur on the "rim" of its neck (left side of the neck, right side of image) is slightly blown out, especially where the white fur meets the upper canine teeth - if it's possible to retrieve the white-on-white detail here it might be worth doing.

Cheers...thanks for sharing this one...

Brad

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on November 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM

I really appreciate images with the subject exhibiting behavior rather than just posing. Nicely done. The wide mouth and curled tongue provide strong visual interest. I do agree with Brad about trying to recover the area of hot whites just under his canines.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on November 15, 2010 at 4:36 PM

No nits from me on this one.

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Comment posted by Philip Schwarz on November 17, 2010 at 5:27 PM

Nicely done. Beautiful comp and colors.

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Comment posted by Dan Walters on November 21, 2010 at 2:52 PM

Great light and color! Like the curl in the tongue.

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