Calling Vixens

Beautiful light, good detail, nice catchlight and caught in the middle of the action - Well done.
Only nit from me is that the tip of the tail seems to be slightly cut.

A nice behavior shot. My thought is that with the 800E, you could have safely upped the ISO to get more DOF. As is, the OOF stuff at the fox's feet detracts from an otherwise good shot, albeit in tough light.

Good moment of capture. Almost seems to be yawning.

Hi Barry,

Good timing on this one - capturing the mouth wide open mid-bark isn't the world easiest task! I like how the "global" contrast on this one makes the fox pop out from the background - that's quite sweet. But I almost wish the shadows on the body weren't quite so harsh (especially the one just to the right of the mouth). I'm not sure if you're into selective editing, but if this were mine I'd probably very slightly lighten up those shadows on the subject itself.

I'm not sure how much of a crop this is (beyond "slight"! ), but to me it feels just a tad tight, especially on the bottom and on the right side. But I guess adding more on the bottom (if you have it) may not be optimal given it would be just more OOF and likely dark space (and add little to the image). Given this was shot at f6.3 I'm guessing that the foreground was really not something you could bring into focus by stopping down, so I think your decision to keep the aperture where it was and keep the ISO down was a good one (my experience with the 800/800E is that it IS a good idea to keep the ISO down whenever possible).

Cheers...

Brad

Good timing! This is a good capture with excellent detail. I agree with Brad you can tweak a bit with some selective opening of facial shadows. I love the quality of the catchlights in the both eyes.

That is seriously funny! Great expression here & excellent timing!

Great catch of this beauty Barry, your timing was perfect. It's cool you were able to get a little catch light in that squinting bark. Sweet Photo!!!

Ken Archer

Thanks for all the input ya'll. I'll make the changes you suggeted. I'm embarrassed that I wrote slight crop as I'm used to that with landscapes. This is about 60% of the original frame as the the focus point was right below his chin
I appreciate the comments and suggestions.

I like the the barking pose.