Red Fox - no, not Fred Sanford

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
If the last 3 days are any indication we've got a Red Fox living somewhere nearby (possibly in the field behind our house), and our bird and squirrel infested backyard seems to be on its daily food patrol route. I've occasionally seen it dart across the yard behind an anxious squirrel but for the last three evenings it's essentially just done a cursory romp through the yard. Except for its second pass thru yesterday it hasn't seemed to minded my presence on the deck and hasn't made any effort to run off after seeing me.

If nothing else it's made for some nice photos...

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"CHRIS"

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Absolutely gorgeous. Some people wouldn't think twice about shooting this creature with a rifle (smh)...…….thank you for using a camera instead. It is just trying to get along in the same world that we are. The teeth look perfect...…..maybe a younger fox??. Nice work Backdoor!
 

hark

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I had to come back and look at these again. Considering the first two were shot at ISO 4000, they are insanely stunning (as all of them are). The fact that you have so much sharpness and detail with that ISO is amazing.
 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
I had to come back and look at these again. Considering the first two were shot at ISO 4000, they are insanely stunning (as all of them are). The fact that you have so much sharpness and detail with that ISO is amazing.

ISO 4000 and 1/1000s in low light for the first. The D500 did its job locking in and the 500mm f5.6pf is a brilliant lens, but the rest is only possible because of how good Topaz Denoise AI is, as I said in this thread. I have one that was at "bird settings" (1/1600s f7.1) that's about a stop darker than the first and 1.6 stops darker than the second here. The software doesn't do miracles, but it makes usable images from what wasn't (right side SOOC, left is Denoise, Camera Raw, Topaz Adjust)...

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This is definitely at the extreme border of where the D500 performs but it's not terrible.
 
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