Arctic Fox Pup

Very nice shot Dave - excellent detail, cute pup!

A cute image indeed Dave and setting is in a good location/habitat. Sadly I find it rather dark, choking some of the nice detail & colour contain within the image. There are some simple tweaks you can do in retrieving the information, however without the EXIF data, time of day, etc it's difficult to make any real key comments. For me there is a cracking image wanting to break out.

TFS
Steve

Super cute and he looks pretty comfortable with your presence. The foliage frames him really nicely. I love the wet, cloudy feel in this and that has brought out the colours beautifully.

Nice close-up. I love the surrounding greenery. It does seem a tad dark.

Max

How does this look?

Dave,

The OP seems to dark but the repost has certainly gone to far the other way, how did you do the lightening?
It would be useful if you could post the EXIF details.

Let's shoot for a happy medium here, shall we

Beautiful! The third version of this image looks about right to me.

David,

I agree with John the 2nd repost is much better

Hi Dave... great capture of this little guy, and the repost looks like you improved the exposure just about right. Nice job.

Hi Dave,

Nice opportunity here and I'm in complete agreement with Steve that there's a great image in here. Definitely like your 2nd re-post the best. To my eye two things could strengthen this image even more. First, it looks to me (tho' I could easily be wrong) that your exposure adjustments here were global. This image is just BEGGING for careful selective exposure adjustment - if this image were mine I'd go with the exposure on the 2nd re-post for the fox, but likely pull back a little on the exposure for most of the rest of the frame. Second - if the version you've shown here is close to full-frame (and you have lots of pixels to play with), I'd consider going with a vertical crop with much of the right side of the frame removed. To me the out-of-focus foliage on the bottom of the right distracts (or at least adds little) to the shot and the upright sitting position of the fox says "vertical". But that's all personal preference and just my 2 bits worth...

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad

Yes, the happy medium works best! Nice image. I agree with Brad you might tweak it further with some careful selective adjustment, but although the posture suggests vertical and it would be fine, I think this might be the better presentation (meaning your choice of horizontal) because of the sense of a dark hole or tunnel behind the foliage on the right edge of the frame. It creates, what is to me, a pleasing sense of mystery. Further, the darkness, with the overlay of greenery, adds weight to that edge, balancing the horizontal choice.