Blew it, didn't blow it

[Meesh Fink]

:D I didn't think the fox kit was going to walk up this close to me, and I didn't think I'd be crawling around on the ground under my truck to get a low angle shot. :D Between that and late evening light, the portrait is fairly soft. Other shots from the set were sharper, but this one seemed special to me in other ways.

So C&C welcome, and you can say BINNIT if you think I should binnit! I will only cry a little (kidding! ;)).

For my own C&C looking at it now, I do think a little brush work to remove noise in the BG would be helpful, and maybe the eye color could be brightened a bit.



7D
400mm f/5.6 lens

1/200 shutter
f/5.6 aperture
640 ISO

Handheld, no IS

[Bill Dix]

Love to hear what the experts say, but this would be a keeper for me. Lovely low angle shot. Focus point may be around the forehead or ear, and a little more dof might have gotten the nose to be sharper, but it has a very sweet feeling to it. To my eye maybe just a bit of a bluish cast? Keep it.

btw, EXIF data would be useful

[Adams Serra]

This is a very nice portrait.
I would keep it also,

[Meesh Fink]

Love to hear what the experts say, but this would be a keeper for me. Lovely low angle shot. Focus point may be around the forehead or ear, and a little more dof might have gotten the nose to be sharper, but it has a very sweet feeling to it. To my eye maybe just a bit of a bluish cast? Keep it.

btw, EXIF data would be useful

Thanks Bill! I'll add EXIF to the first post. I will see if the blue cast can be removed - I see it, too. That might help bring his color back toward red.

[Meesh Fink]

This is a very nice portrait.
I would keep it also,

Thanks for the comment, Adam! :)

[Lance Peters]

Lovely - here my vision of this.

some texture sharpening - eyes lightened a tad and sharpened -not sure about the colour - my screen needs recalibrating.

[Rachel Hollander]

Beautiful shot. Definitely a keeper.

TFS,
Rachel

[David Thomasson]

Didn't blow it. I would go for a painterly effect. Something like this ...

[Fabs Forns]

I was going to suggest cropping the legs, but DAvid repost took care of that as well as the very cool temperature. Awesome and thanks David for the great work.

[Harshad Barve]

excellent image and David took this over the top
TFS

[Meesh Fink]

Thank you Lance and David for showing me the possibilities for this set of images! WOW! I have a lot of work to do.

Rachal, Fabs, and Harshad, thank you very much for looking and commenting.

[Meesh Fink]

PS. David - that rendition does look more accurate in terms of fur color.

[Dave Mills]

Hi Meesh, Lance's repost is an improvement to the OP and brings out it's strengths. David's is more of an artistic variation which I must say is very appealing.
Shows what can be done with the image with some PS skills...

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Meesh Should have had a cuteness alert :)

With a couple of tweaks in PS the image looks mighty fine, original had the slight cast and needed a contrasts boost. Both re posts look excellent and Davids is pure art !!! For more conventional would still do a little blurring around the bottom legs but not as much !!

[Meesh Fink]

Hi Meesh Should have had a cuteness alert :)

With a couple of tweaks in PS the image looks mighty fine, original had the slight cast and needed a contrasts boost. Both re posts look excellent and Davids is pure art !!! For more conventional would still do a little blurring around the bottom legs but not as much !!

Thanks Alfred! Absolutely, this thread has been sooo helpful for me just to see the possibilities.

[Bill Jobes]

Nice contemplative look on the young one, Meesh.

I think Fabs hit the most important point, that of color temperature. What was your WB setting?

I would hope to see more reddish-brown in the fur, as that tends to be their natural color, even as kits.

In what part of the country did you see it?