Red Fox

[TheCheesWizz]

My main question on this photo is about the right eye. Does it bother you that it is so dark, I like it. Also, is there enough color in this picture or is it to boring.



Camera Model: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS
Focal Length: 100.0mm (35mm equivalent: 588...
Exposure Time: 0.0006 s (1/1600)
Aperture: f/5.7

[jim greer]

It's perfect. IMO. Is this shot taken in the wild? If so, your very fortunate to get a shot that close as you did of these guys. Maybe once in a lifetime. It's Natural looking. The pic is awesome. TFS

[TheCheesWizz]

Originally Posted by jim greer

It's perfect. IMO. Is this shot taken in the wild? If so, your very fortunate to get a shot that close as you did of these guys. Maybe once in a lifetime. It's Natural looking. The pic is awesome. TFS

Thanks jim greer, it was in the wild. I have been photography this one, and its brothers and sisters, since it was a baby.

[FDCPR]

CheesWizz you're a member of this fox family now as I see in your response this is the same one you've been shooting for a while. You've improved a lot since the first shot you showed here and congratulations on improving and keeping after these guys. The eye is a little dark and you could help it in post if you have the software. Even being a tad dark around the one eye I still like the photo. Being taken in the wild means that the little lighting issue is not a big deal as you don't have a lot of choices when shooting this way, maybe use a little fill flash next time but it will probably spook this guy.

[numsi]

I like how you tried to show DOF with the plant on the right but for me i don't particularly like it that it covers the lower part of the fox. All in all great focus and keep it up.

[PrimeTime]

Very nice shot chees, I like it! One of my favorite animals. A couple things that might help...............

1. The extra room on the right doesn't add anything to the composition , so get rid of it.

2. This image lacks small scale contrast. To get small scale contrast, use unsharp mask with a large radius and a small amount. Every image will be different, so you have to zoom in and see what looks best and go from there.

3. A little saturation contrast doesn't hurt either. Decompose to lab color space and increase the contrast of the a and b channel.

4. dodge and burn around the right eye to lighten it a bit.

Here is a quick edit with gimp..............

[kirbinster]

That is a great shot of a fox. BTW the issue is with the fox's left eye. Please be careful, when wild animals let you get very close they are often Rabbid.

[leviathan]

Ahh, finally an animal shot that isn't a cat! Wow, what an amazing capture of such a beautiful animal. I personally found the fox's left eye being dark to be a little distracting. I imagine that could be fixed in photoshop though, am I right? On another note, I appreciate the challenge of framing animals well in their natural habitat with the limited amount of time and whatnot, but I think compositionally the image would look a lot better if the fox's eyes were framed in the upper right third of the image. I suppose you could crop it as such, but you would also lose the gorgeous white plant fluff that is in the bottom of the image. Great image! Gorgeous.