Pine Marten.

[Karl Egressy]

Thanks for looking and commenting
Canon 1D Mark IV
Canon 100-400 f4.5-5.6 L IS II.
ISO 800
f 7.1
1/500 s

[John Robinson]

Thats a picture and a half. !! Slightly different colour from ours and what a difference some snow makes!!
Great stuff.
JohnR

[keith mitchell]

Hey Karl the fur on this looks superb ,detailed but with that nice soft look, very well caught. Looks like you have plenty of that white stuff over there.

Keith.

[haseeb badar]

Hi Karl --Beautiful image , with lovely colours , standing out against the snow . Lovely eye contact as well, i like the details and sharpness and also the snow i every nicely exposed , though i feel a higher ss could have been better .

TFS !

[Anette Mossbacher]

Hi Karl,

great look this animal gives you.

I cannot comment on the clots at all, but on the crop. I would crop a bit from the right, not to much just a tad.

Overall it looks good to me, to bad the tongue is not out :w3

Have a great evening

Ciao Anette

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Karl, I'm wondered when you would post this, however you and Daniel are posting some exquisite images of these guys and the snow setting provides a really cool environment. IQ looks good, but I'm not sure what the 'patchy/slight blurring' parts along the front leg is, runs down from the shoulder & down with one small part at the rear and parts of the snow near the underbelly as it changes colour too, NR from masking perhaps, just looks odd??? I would agree on a bit more SS, but you would need to go perhaps to ISO1600 to gain much more, so I'm OK with this. Lovely face detail and sharpness, likewise the exposure. I think you could tease more definition/detail out from within the snow, but I think it might class with the subject, VWD indeed.

I hope you post the red fox at some point.

TFS
Steve

[Joseph Przybyla]

No nits from me, Karl. I think you did great work getting the exposure of the Pine Marten and the snow to both look correct. Thank you for sharing.

[christopher galeski]

Nice capture Karl,nice detail in martin and snow,nice light.TFS

[shane shacaluga]

Great looking Pine Marten! Nice pose and good details overall! The snow setting makes the subject pop very nicely

TFS

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Karl - This is really lovely. Excellent detail and it pops against the snowy setting. I am fine with the level of detail in the snow. I like the way you've brought out the soft texture of the fur. Great look to camera too. Are these guys baited in any way as there seem to be a lot of images and sightings of them on forums this year?

TFS,
Rachel

[Karl Egressy]

Hi Karl - This is really lovely. Excellent detail and it pops against the snowy setting. I am fine with the level of detail in the snow. I like the way you've brought out the soft texture of the fur. Great look to camera too. Are these guys baited in any way as there seem to be a lot of images and sightings of them on forums this year?

TFS,
Rachel
Thanks Rachel. Baiting is against the law carrying a $600 fine.
However, these guys visit the garbage bins and eat the leftover from there which is much worse IMO.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Karl lovely little fella to find at the dust bins :eek3:.
I like the pose and the overall tones and color , he gave you a nice pose and look .

Just asking curious if you have run NR at any stage during processing , as i think in parts you have not that much detail where i would expect detail to be seen . If you have run NR on the subject , at any stage , i might try to avoid it completely on the subject or lower the effect .
Could be just me ...

TFS Andreas

[Morkel Erasmus]

A lovely shot, as good as I've seen of this species Karl!
I do think the fur and marten can do with a slight touch more sharpening (but it could just be my taste). Subject does look sharp and in focus.