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A Red Fox cautiously surveys his surroundings before venturing deeper into the dark forest .

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This is excellent! almost a classic painting feel to it.
I like the way the background has been darkened off to bring out the fox. If this was done in camera it's double amazing ;-)
Well caught.

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toby phillips

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WoW Excellent shot Donna, I really like this. Well done

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This is fantastic Donna ths lighting on the fox is wonderful.

Thank you very much , Toby , Paul and Muriel I'm happy you like it
For the most part , done in camera ... I went for a darker exposer to keep the feel of the deep woods ... When editing , I then decreased the intensity of the shadows a bit , which toned down the contrast of the background and softened the shadows and left the fox's highlights nicely intact . Then after resizing the image , I sharpened only the fox and the foreground . Added a wee bit of vignetting around the edges ... And then the hard part... the title .. I'm about titled out , couldn't come up with one , so I called my husband in and he gave the photo the name

Excellent shot Donna and well done on the PS work, like Toby said its got a painting feel to it.

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I can't imagine a shot any more perfect than this one.

Hi Donna. .. Excellent name .. and it helps to have someone to help out .. lol .. I want to know the rest of the story .. lol .. "A Red Fox cautiously surveys his surroundings before venturing deeper into the dark forest ." ..... A start of a good Children's Book ... and you already have the cover ... and first page ..
Cheers
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Stunning, wonderful, beautiful, simply a great photograph turned (as said above) into a fantastic, enticing, intriguing "painting-like" image. And it even looks too dark to have taken such a super photograph. Great work in PS just made a great pic superb! I think you can tell, I rather like it

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And it was a SONY that took it, forgot i hadnt commented i am in the Linn camp though everything he said!

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