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<blockquote data-quote="Vincent" data-source="post: 327164" data-attributes="member: 15675">Bad picture, but learning moment:[ATTACH]98864[/ATTACH]So one evening when I was looking for macro subjects between some meadows I noticed a fox. I did not have the gear on me to try to take a picture, so I let it it run. When I drove away I saw it was still hanging around, so I figured it was the fox main hunting ground. Some days later I went back to check, with my best gear for this (700mm on Gimbal). When arriving the fox had seen me and I saw it running away. Now in this area there is quite some human movement, so I thought this might not have scared the fox completely away. I installed myself in a discrete place with good overview and waited. After a while I noticed a snale and got macro gear out again to take a picture of that creature, while setting up that gear I notice the fox in the field, so I went back to the fox. It was far away and the sun was being covered by clouds in the very late evening, impossible to do anything under 6400 ISO, at the end I was at 25200 ISO. The fox was &quot;working&quot; on a hole in the ground from time to time getting something out to eat, regularly checking the movement around him (not noticing me), I must have observed him 10 minutes at least on maximum magnification on life view. This moment was worth a lot more then getting a good picture of it. (I would have to tresspass to get a better position)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vincent, post: 327164, member: 15675"] Bad picture, but learning moment: [ATTACH=CONFIG]98864._xfImport[/ATTACH] So one evening when I was looking for macro subjects between some meadows I noticed a fox. I did not have the gear on me to try to take a picture, so I let it it run. When I drove away I saw it was still hanging around, so I figured it was the fox main hunting ground. Some days later I went back to check, with my best gear for this (700mm on Gimbal). When arriving the fox had seen me and I saw it running away. Now in this area there is quite some human movement, so I thought this might not have scared the fox completely away. I installed myself in a discrete place with good overview and waited. After a while I noticed a snale and got macro gear out again to take a picture of that creature, while setting up that gear I notice the fox in the field, so I went back to the fox. It was far away and the sun was being covered by clouds in the very late evening, impossible to do anything under 6400 ISO, at the end I was at 25200 ISO. The fox was "working" on a hole in the ground from time to time getting something out to eat, regularly checking the movement around him (not noticing me), I must have observed him 10 minutes at least on maximum magnification on life view. This moment was worth a lot more then getting a good picture of it. (I would have to tresspass to get a better position) [/QUOTE]

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