{"id":25383,"date":"2016-10-06T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=25383"},"modified":"2016-10-06T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T22:45:10","slug":"fox-portraits-getting-into-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fox-portraits-getting-into-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Portraits – Getting into Range"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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Portrait of an urban fox at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Portait of an urban fox at night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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’).<\/p>\n

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Fox peering round a shrub (from about 7-8 metres).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Fox walking across the patio, from the same distance but with head lowered.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1128],"class_list":["post-25383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","tag-fox","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t