Foxy Fun

[Morkel Erasmus]

Fun at a Cape Fox den in the Kalahari desert (Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa/Botswana). These kits were actually playing on the imaginary line that separates Botswana and South Africa .

Techs:
Nikon D3s
Nikkor 500mm f4 VR-II
1.4x teleconverter
f7.1 | 1/640 SS | ISO-800
EV +0.3

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Morkel, looks like you had a great time watching these guys. I'm looking at this with a not-so-good monitor, so can't comment on the colors. The middle fox looks to me not as sharp as the one in the right, which is surprising considering your F7.1. Am I seeing it wrong? Loi

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Morkel - looks like a fun sighting and you captured the action well. Good choice on the pano but if it were mine I would crop down from the top to get rid of the dark area in the ulc. How much of a crop is this? It doesn't seem to have your usual IQ but the techs look good.

TFS,
Rachel

[Ashleigh Scully]

Hi - these are really cute foxes. I think the middle one may not be as sharp because he's moving. Maybe 1/640s isn't fast enough. He's jumping away from some sharp fox baby teeth so maybe he's moving faster than normal! Everything else looks good.

[Tobie Schalkwyk]

Nice one, Morkel! These guys look really full of life and ... naughty!

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Morkel ,
nice action one of this very funny to look at subjects, in the past i got lucky with them close to Nossob.But equipment and me has not been as good as today , so my quality is not as good as yours . But i will give it a go in a minute.
Like the overall image design and colors/contrast fitting well to an overcast? day.
Mummy/Daddy in the BG is not ideal, but no deal breaker.
Think the unsharp left jumping one is due to "slow" SS.

TFS Andreas

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Morkel, this is a fun image, nice behaviour and action from these little playful guys. Good techs as usual from you.

[Jamie Douglas]

A cute moment worth processing and sharing Morkel. I am little stuck on how I feel about the comp though given the location of the fox in the background. I gather that's mum paying attention to something else going on but maybe a slight head turn towards the action would have improved this or a little more space between mum and the jumping kit. Anyway we can't control where animals choose to sit and when action happens we have to react and capture what is happening from our vantage point or risk missing it altogether.

A pretty cool looking species.

Cheers

Jamie

[Neil Burton]

I like that mum is just nicely blurred but obviously evident. Nice one.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Thanks for your thoughts everyone.
SS was probably too slow, but I actually like depicting some motion these days so my SS choices have been influenced by my desire to break out of the box of super-sharp action shots I'd been posting for a while. Here the SS being enough to have the lunging kit sharp and the evading kit blurred is just right for my taste. Also, mum in the BG adds to the scene for me as she keeps a vigilant watch as her kits rumble about...and her being perfectly placed on the outline of the evader makes the shot for me as well. Different strokes I guess