I may not have been posting much, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been working hard to get to know the dominant garden fox. Over the past week he seems to have reached the conclusion that I cannot leap 9.5 metres in the blink of an eye. Slowly the distances have been coming down. The pattern is the same. I have to start at least 10 metres away, but he now lets me approach closer. Tonight we got the distance down to a respectable 4 metres. Hence the opportunity to get some proper portrait shots, such as these.
Those have both been slightly cropped, but not much. The big gain though is that by getting in closer (5 metres) the eye-shine caused by the flash is much less apparent… and with a slight downward angle disappears altogether. From 9 metres away the eyes light up like headlamps. At mid-range (7 metres) the eye-shine is apparent in the original shot, but sufficiently controlled to make minor touch-up in PhotoShop straightforward (the equivalent of removing red-eye, except that in foxes the ‘red’ is ‘blue’).
Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.
Darko
7 Oct 2016Looks very healthy for an urban fox. However, I don’t think you live in a heart of the city, so to say, a lot of nature around is enough to keep them healthy, right?
Words
13 Oct 2016Darko, you’re right. We’re semi-rural and there’s plenty of proper food for them around here. They do look good though at this time of year.
derwandersmann
7 Oct 2016Nice going, Paul … your patience is paying off; these are excellent.
Words
13 Oct 2016Thanks Charles 😉 He’s being very tolerant these days.