Red tail fox.

lifesdisciple

Cuaght this fox today hunting in the tall grass alongside a marsh. Looks like something got at his tail. It was cool watching him hunt. Also my first Bigma hand held shot at 800 ISO.

dallas

Nice....I'd love to be stalking him for photo opps.

dbaker1221

great shot! how was it hand holding the bigma? what shutter speed did you shoot this at?
i'm really itching to get the bigma for my d50.

lifesdisciple

dbaker1221 wrote:

great shot! how was it hand holding the bigma? what shutter speed did you shoot this at?
i'm really itching to get the bigma for my d50.

here's the exif stats:

File Name
IMG_4648.JPG
Camera Model Name
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL
Shooting Date/Time
12/8/2006 11:13:08 PM
Shooting Mode
Shutter Speed Priority AE
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/1000
Av( Aperture Value )
14
Metering Mode
Evaluative
Exposure Compensation
0
ISO Speed
800
Lens
50.0 - 500.0 mm
Focal Length
500.0 mm
Image Size
3072x2048
Image Quality
Fine
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF Mode
One-Shot AF
Parameters
Contrast +1
Sharpness +1
Color saturation +1
Color tone Normal
Color Space
sRGB
File Size
1824KB
Drive Mode
Single-frame shooting
Owner's Name
Camera Body No.
0660226625

hope that helps. love this lens. the more i have been praticing the easier it is getting to hand hold. and the tightness of the zoom ring has loosened up nicely. worth every one of my pennies.

kdog

Nice shot of an elusive critter.

Just curious, but why did you use such a small aperature, F14? It seems you could have acheived that shutter speed at a larger aperature which would have allowed you to use ISO400 or even 200. The resulting shallower DOF would have isolated your subject better too. You have a lot of the ground in focus which you really don't need. Just a thought.

Regards,
-joel

Harryb

kdog wrote:

Nice shot of an elusive critter.

Just curious, but why did you use such a small aperature, F14? It seems you could have acheived that shutter speed at a larger aperature which would have allowed you to use ISO400 or even 200. The resulting shallower DOF would have isolated your subject better too. You have a lot of the ground in focus which you really don't need. Just a thought.

Regards,
-joel

lifesdisciple

kdog wrote:

Nice shot of an elusive critter.

Just curious, but why did you use such a small aperature, F14? It seems you could have acheived that shutter speed at a larger aperature which would have allowed you to use ISO400 or even 200. The resulting shallower DOF would have isolated your subject better too. You have a lot of the ground in focus which you really don't need. Just a thought.

Regards,
-joel

i shot in tv mode to get the fastest shutter i could get and used ISO 800 in combo with this because i never hand held this lens before and i wanted to make sure i got the shot. didn't know how long he was gonna stick around to let me photograph him. i only was able to shoot 3 shots before he took off. that was my main reason. i will do more and experiment more as i pratice more hand holding. thanks for the tips though.

Dick on Aruba

Great capture! They not easy to photograph.

Thanks for sharing.

Dick.

Swartzy

He wasn't sly enough
to avoid the camera! Nice shot.