{"id":29942,"date":"2022-05-28T16:29:22","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T15:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=29942"},"modified":"2023-02-23T18:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T18:23:17","slug":"fox-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/fox-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Long while since I’ve posted! I’m still photographing foxes, and we have a couple of very regular vixens who visit, but no cubs. I’ve also been thinking about how I photograph the foxes because after so many years it does become a challenge to come up with anything new. Hopefully these images count. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were all taken on a long lens in fairly bright sunshine and make great colour images but I wanted to try something different. I’ve been toying with black and white processing for a little while and decided to see what I could get from this set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I processed them in Lightroom (which now has some excellent masking tools so is a lot easier to use than a year or so ago), and masked out the background. I used some other tweaks in there to generate a more fine-grained effect and did a little bit of touching up with a brush to bring out detail where needed. As you can see I was aiming at something close to a pencil drawing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sketch photo of Lopa the vixen #1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sketch photo of Lopa the vixen #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sketch photo of Lopa the vixen #3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sketch photo of Lopa the vixen #4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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All the photos were taken with the Canon 1DX Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long while since I’ve posted! I’m still photographing foxes, and we have a couple of very regular vixens who visit, but no cubs. I’ve also been thinking about how I photograph the foxes because after so many years it does become a challenge to come up with anything new. Hopefully these images count. They were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t