by Max Waugh
During my spring Yellowstone adventures, I was able to bring clients to a red fox den for a couple days. After bringing food in to her kits, the vixen climbed back up the hill above the den site and settled in briefly on this boulder. It was a really appealing mix of background colors and patterns, though I did try to tone down the highlights on those sunlit trunks just a tad.
Canon 1DX
Canon 500mm + 1.4x
ISO 400
1/640th
f/5.6
(Larger version viewable via the print link)
Max
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7 commentsShe really stands out well from the background. The background colors are really nice also. Little America?
Max,
This a delight, the incorporation of the environment is truly splendid
Thanks guys. Jerry, this den was a few miles south of Norris. One of the few times I ever go down to that area.
Max
Max, a great photo of the fox in its environment.
Hi Max,
I like your overall composition here, especially how you positioned the fox in the frame and the head-turn of the fox and the positioning of the tail are near perfect (nice - are darned rare - when the subject cooperates so fully!). I like the colouring in the background, but do find that the strong, bright vertical lines formed be the tree trunks pull at my eye (and away from the subject) a little.
Cheers...
Brad
Hello Max
She has given you an excellent pose! Well done.
Bill
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An alternative concept would be to negates some of the effect of the brighter vertical trunks with a careful crop and present this nicely posed subject in vertical format! Good work, here.