The stare
by Luke Ormand
Here is another image of the Silver Fox - this one had much better eye contact and lighting - however there were a few grasses in front of the face as you can see. I cloned out two very OOF grasses crossing the foxes face.
Nikon D7100 80-400mm HH @ 400mm
f/8
1/500s
ISO 400
Full Frame, minor adjustements and some cloning of OOF vegetation
Comments
3 commentsThis is much better, whilst the grasses are a nuisance, they are there.
Grass is just one of the many perils of Wildlife photography.
I do not mind too much about the grass stemps since they are not covering the eye which creates a very good eye contact with the viewer. I also like the whole scenery as said already in your other post.
While I agree with the comments above that grasses are a nuisance (and that they were there, which I assume means they were a natural part of the scene), for me they DO distract significantly. I'd like to say otherwise, but just being fully honest. I think the fact that they cross right through the face (and the one virtually touches the edge of the eye) is what makes it very challenging for me to look beyond them. But, I guess if wildlife photography was easy - and if Ma Nature always delivered up perfect settings and situations for us - everyone would be doing it!
Cheers...
Brad