(If this is a composite, etc. please be honest with your techniques to help others learn)
Hi John, nice backwards looking pose you captured here. I also like seeing the eyes so well - you may try brightening the one on the left. Nice selective focus on the face. I think you might also try burning the brighter areas in the photo as they seem to detract attention from the fox’s face. I think you could also desaturate some of the greens.
Thanks Allen, I was hanging a trail camera last Spring. When I turned around this pup was napping but woke immediately. The fox was laying on a mint green carpet of moss with beams of sunlight directly on him and the plants immediately adjacent to him. I could not believe the scene setup. The Fox was more surprised than frightened and just ambled away.
Hi Jodn!
I like the pose but the fox apprears to be frightened,
There’s a strong blue cast and the frame is bit tight overall.
Hi John,
The greens are almost too vibrant and saturated and take the eyes away from the fox. First, use “Levels” in photoshop to reduce any color cast. Then using the dropper tool in Hue and Saturation, carefully reduce the saturation of yellows and greens in the areas where the greens are overly saturated. It is one of the weaknesses of digital cameras. Also going from a Tiff to JPEG tends to blow up greens as well. Other than those key things, I am glad that you were able to get a nice shot of this foxy fellow…,Jim
Thanks Jagdeep, The fox lives in a den behind my house and I used a telephoto lens. I agree that the fox was frightened because he was asleep when I walked up to him. This is how it “went down”, I was busy putting up a trail camera to find out what lived in the den. While doing so, the fox was apparently watching me after waking up Humorous, I thought. . . . As I turned in his direction, this photo was taken with my 5ds-r, and 100x400mm telephoto with the 1.4x extender
Thanks Jim, All of your great suggestions will be addressed later in a repost. If allowed, my intention was to show how the sunlight came down to the fox in columns or beams of light. Even so, your suggestions would rightly dim down the “Spring green colors” Your suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks Jim for explaining this technique. I’ve used Hue and Saturation quite a bit, but have not experimented with the eyedropper to create finer adjustments. I appreciate you sharing this.
Hi John, the repost is better as far as the visibility of the right eye (on the left 
) is concerned. However, just try to remove the colour blue selectively from your photo (desaturate blue in Lightroom if you use Lightroom) and that should do the trick. Also the fur in the sun is a bit blown-out, that can possibly be covered with the Highlights function in Lightroom. And the green (possibly some yellow as well) should definitely be desaturated and the luminance taken down. One thing I would saturate just a touch more would be the colour orange. I hope you can find the time to put some work in this shot as it is a beautiful moment with that sweet eye contact!
Grt, Ingrid.
Thanks Ingrid, Will put your suggestions into action. Your time in this critique is appreciated.
Wayne
Much better, Wayne! I’m glad you found my comments useful.
All the best, Ingrid.
