Its difficult to photograph fox cubs around the den without causing too much disturbance; the light is rarely where you want it to be, there are usually all manner of intervening bits of vegetation and by the time they are becoming active above ground, the grass is usually getting quite long. So even when shooting from a hide there are usually a lot of compromises involved. In this instance you've caught an engaging interaction between two of the cubs, but they are bit tight in the frame, even for me , and I'm sure you would like them both to be a little further away from the left edge. There is probably nothing you can do about this now, unless you have other frames with more grass and want to make a composit shot. Bringing up the tonal values a little to alleviate the shadow on the face of the standing cub somewhat is something that I would try if this were my image, but the shot is probably a bit too soft to spend a lot of processing time on. I try to keep the shutter speed up above a minimum of 1/640 when shooting fox cubs, and ideally like to be at 1/800 or faster. I think it is better to have a sharp, noisy image, than one that is less sharp with lower noise levels.
Discussion
6 repliesAll C and C welcome
Canon 20D
Canon 300f;4
1/400@f;4
400ASA
Tripod
Hide
Ian
Cheers
Austin
Lovely image, well caught
Ron