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Guess what ... another fox!

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Posted by Phil Shaw on December 23, 2011 at 5:50 AM
Guess what ... another fox!
Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) - Essex, UK
Canon 1Ds Mk3, 300/f2.8, Gitzo 3530LSV, Wimberley WH2.
Manual exposure mode f3.2; 1/100, iso 800.
RAW image processed in Adobe Camera Raw; sharpened in Photoshop CS5; noise reduction using Noiseware Professional Imagenomic; full frame.

I set up a shot for Autumnwatch with the sun setting behind a fox and I've been waiting since early November for a decent sunset to repeat the shot as a still image. Since then I haven't really had the right sort of evening sky to get what I'm after and the position of the sun is now too far south at sunset to get what I'm really after. Yesterday evening we had one of those twilight skies with a band of yellow on the horizon and that's what I used as the background for this shot. The rim lighting comes from an EX580 Mk2 flash set to manual fitted with a CTO gel positioned behind the subject and triggered using PW+2 radio triggers.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Posted by Pete Etheridge on December 23, 2011 at 6:00 AM
Lovely Phil - I like it very much. :toast:
Posted by Neil Burton on December 23, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Great setup PHil, paid off big time.
Posted by Mike Smith on December 23, 2011 at 6:34 AM
oh my gosh, the fox meister has out done himself this time.......

nature photography at its very best, what more can one say!

:toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on December 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Yep, that's a great one and good thinking to set it up. Probably my favourite of your fox images :toast:
Posted by keith mitchell on December 23, 2011 at 8:09 AM
Hi phil.
I'm with Mike on this, nature Photography at it's very best.

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

Keith.
Posted by Nick Mckeown on December 23, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Stunning fox image....you have surpassed youself on this one Phil. Nothing else to say really!

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

Have a great Xmas and a happy new year.

Nick, :smile: :wavey:
Posted by Alan Bryant on December 23, 2011 at 10:43 AM
This is one fine image.

Fantastic :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by Barry Southon on December 23, 2011 at 11:26 AM
Phil

Superb a master at work.
:wink:
Posted by David Sewell on December 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM
I agree with Simon - probably your best to date.
Posted by Bob Johnson on December 23, 2011 at 2:35 PM
Easily your best fox shot Phil, and that is saying something :wink:

Bob :smile:
Posted by Matt Cole on December 23, 2011 at 2:45 PM
a very impressive image Phil, all the more so since you planned it like this.

Matt :toast:
Posted by Fran French on December 24, 2011 at 4:25 AM
Absolutely superb Phil, what more can one say?!! :toast: :toast:
Posted by Nick on December 24, 2011 at 12:15 PM
A lovely image. Hopefully one day you'll get it all without resorting to flash, until then, I'm sure you'll have fun trying :smile:

Happy Christmas!

:toast:
Posted by Tom_W on December 24, 2011 at 3:49 PM
stunner as usual - merry Xmas.
Posted by David Taylor on December 24, 2011 at 4:59 PM
A superb 2D image, very atmospheric.

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Posted by Dave Bartlett on December 25, 2011 at 7:26 AM
Superb Phil. That will look good on a cover somewhere I'm sure :toast: :toast:

Dave
Posted by Phil Ellard on December 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM
:wavey: even by your standards this is wonderful :toast: :toast:
Posted by Phil Ellard on December 27, 2011 at 2:07 PM
:wavey: even by your standards this is wonderful :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on December 31, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Super as ever.... for me the only very minor thing is that I find the saturation a bit too much, but that is personal....

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