After a decade of photos and trail cameras I found my first image of mating foxes on the most recent set of trail cam videos. The video itself was woefully over-exposed and almost pure white. I almost missed it when I was scanning the footage (literally a white screen with the barest flicker of movement on it).
It was captured at the time of day when the camera stays on night-infra red mode, but there is sufficient light for everything to burn out. It only captured a few seconds. None of my video editing tools would cope with the exposure problems, but I was able to play around with it just enough extract a frame as a still. I then had to force the contrasts to an extreme level to get a viewable image.
derwandersmann
17 Jan 2016A bit of bad luck, eh? Reminds me of the time when my fixing bath was exhausted, back in my wet-darkroom days.
Words
20 Jan 2016Hi dW, taking a glass-half-full approach I was pleased to get anything. The chances of them picking this garden, being in front of the camera, card not being full (it was a couple of days later) and batteries surviving the cold all stack the odds against. But I agree, a complete pain that they didn’t turn up 20 minutes earlier or later!
Darko
17 Jan 2016Hopefully they she will decide to grow them up in your back yard or so 🙂
Words
20 Jan 2016Darko, I’m always hopeful! It would be nice to have another fox year. 2015 was very quiet.