Wow--the only thing better than a weekly challenge on dog portraits is opening it up to all canines! This could be my favourite week of the NPN year!
I'm sure I'll be posting some portraits of working breeds in the coming days, but I thought I'd share this one again, mostly because of how much this fox has meant to my family. This is our beloved Waterton vixen that passed last spring. The picture here was taken on Father's Day 2014, when she decided after 5yrs of watching us photograph her that we must be trustworthy and came over and sat down near us and eventually fell asleep beside us. It was a crisp, windy day with mixed overcast conditions, and I was delighted when the sun broke through at a pleasing angle as she gave me this look. While I do have plenty of full-body shots of her, I didn't have that option here with the 500mm (we surely weren't expecting this close of a photo opp) so chose to compose the shot to be most pleasing for her face while leaving in her wonderful tail in a supporting role to the portrait.
We miss her. A lot, actually.
EDIT: I should mention that if you your monitor is anything like mine (wide-gamut IPS in Adobe 98), the colours and tones in the larger version are much more accurate than the automated 720px version here...so please view the larger version if you have time.
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Nikon D600
Nikkor AF-S 500mm f/4D IF-ED
ISO 640
1/1000sec @ f/6.3
Mounted on FEISOL CT-3372 Elite tripod with Acratech GV2 ballhead and Wimberley Sidekick
Comments
7 commentsI usually run into the problem of a subject getting too close with chickadees. I believe that she gave you a good option to take the shot. And you did. The lighting is wonderful and there's enough of her in the frame to provide you with an interesting composition.