Originally Posted by
Steve Kaluski
Hi Karl, personally I think it's one of the most exquisite portraits of a fox posted here within the Wildlife Forum. Similar to the Pine Marten the white environment (snow) really provides a superb backdrop to let both colour and fur just sing out, so well done and big congrats on this one.
I think the DoF looks OK, although may be a hint more DoF would have been better i.e. f/9, however you would have had to crank up the ISO more on the MKIV to retain SS which I think would perhaps not have been ideal, but with the available light, there would have been little noise present, just a thought, no deal breaker. Have you tried Evaluated rather than Partial metering, or do you just prefer to use Partial? I think it was a good call in the crop and orientation, but shooting Portrait would have been better to avoid a large crop, in turn the IQ would have been better and less valuable content thrown away. If you get the shot in the bag that you want and time allows, shoot alternative frames, going tighter, wider, landscape, portrait etc...
Just a thought and again it's all personal taste, but flipping the image (which has no effect on the image what so ever), I feel looks better, but also just blowing in the white colour in the top retains the simplicity of the BKG and reduces any distractions no matter how slight.
Nice work.
TFS
Steve