the stand off

[Gen Benjamin]

Nikon D300
300 2.8
ISO 400
3.5 1250
Matrix metered

[Deborah Harrison]

No critiques here! - lovely image.

You might want to crop a bit off the sides so as to emphasize the subjects and maybe tone down the highlights somewhat, however you've captured a great moment.

Thanks for sharing

[Geoff Warnock]

Indeed a great moment nicely captured. I'm curious as to what happened next!

[denise ippolito]

I love it. I also want to know what happened next? I agree a tighter crop might emphasis the moment a little. Nice work Gen!!

[Joe Senzatimore]

Great catch Gen. Love the "story" being told. Might tone it down a bit , as mentioned.

[Danny J Brown]

Hi Gen,

An absolutely beautiful image with some great interaction going on. I knew I was going to love this one when I saw the thumbnail and the title. I would be so giddy to get a fox in great light with a little mouse or vole looking up at it. I think I know how this story ends.....no need to follow up on that......unless you have a shot of him throwing it up in the air; now that would be cool. Thanks for an awesome shot.

DB

P.S. I'd trim a little from the left side to make it even more awesome. Just a thought.

[Hilary Hann]

Beautiful light, wonderful cameo of animal interaction, great oof background. Fantastic.

[Ken Watkins]

This is what I would call "capturing the moment", I am wondering if you have the IQ to do a rather subsantial crop something like this? The limits imposed by the size of your JPEG mean that I cannot make it any larger.

Fabulous shot

[Steve Kaluski]

Great Gen, superb timing, love the interaction, perfect capture.

Would agree on cropping some from the lhs.

TFS
Steve

[Rachel Hollander]

Great capture and story telling here.


TFS,
Rachel

[Todd Frost]

Nice moment captured, agree with toning down the highlights a bit as well as a bit off the left.
TFS
Todd

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is such a great shot! story, drama, suspense, killer light and overall stupendousness :)

I agree cropping a tad tighter will work - although Ken's portrait crop doesn't really do it for me :) (sorry Ken ;)) I like the view and pose of the whole fox you have in the OP...so just a tad tighter from the left should do

[Marc Mol]

Love the interaction here in great light Gen.
Have toned down the highlights here using a luminosity mask in CS5.
TFS

[Gen Benjamin]

Love the interaction here in great light Gen.
Have toned down the highlights here using a luminosity mask in CS5.
TFS

thanks I'll have to learn how to do that.
Gen

[Harshad Barve]

Terrific image ans series this is
TFS

[Paul Taylor]

Oh, this one's even better than the first I commented on. I go along with the left crop and tone down suggestions, and the feeling that this is pretty special.