Red Fox

Beautiful winter coat. Would like a little less OOF area in the foreground but it provided you with the low angle so it's a good compromise

Nice shot of this beautiful guy. My only nit is the protruding forground. It is a bit distracting, but there wan't much you could do about it. A slightly tighter crop would eliminate some of the foreground.

Ashleigh,
The Fox itself is beautifully captured, but I find the foreground a little distracting. I would try cropping some of it out and going for more of a pano crop

Hi Ashleigh,

Nice subject and you're definitely rendered the fox very sharply. Like the others, I find the out-of-focus foreground quite distracting in this shot. In my view careful control of how out-of-focus zones are distributed in a shot is one of the toughest things, but one of the most important things, in successfully pulling off wildlife shots with telephoto lenses.

This next comment is on the personal preference side - but I rarely see a wildlife shot that I like that has two large and distinct out-of-focus zones in it (meaning an out-of-focus foreground AND background), especially if the foreground has discrete objects and/or tones in it (like the snow here - the "patches" end up looking like globs!). To me the dual OOF zones just scream "telephoto" so much and are so unnatural compared to how our eyes work that they get in the way of me appreciating the shot. But avoiding these dual OOF zones can be really challenging...(but who said good wildlife photography was easy?).

Hope this makes sense to you - and just one person's opinion...

Cheers...

Brad

Thank you everybody for commenting. I've been really busy with schoolwork but I hope to post some other fox shots really soon.!