At the border crossing between Argentina and Chile, my photo tour group and I stopped at a tourist store. Sitting nearby watching the human activity was this beautiful gray fox. It was apparently unafraid of people and allowed a very close approach. Still, in order to fill the frame, I used a 100-400mm telephoto plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 560mm of focal length. It was getting quite dark, and the images were unattractively bluish. I switched to shade white balance, but the results still had too much blue. So, in Photoshop, I reduced the blue tones using Image > adjustments > hue/saturation (I selected 'blue' in the pull down submenu in the dialog box and then moved the saturation slider to the left). I shot this from as low an angle as I could to make this a more intimate portrait. Standing at a full adult height doesn't make a strong image when photographing small animals. My settings were 1/200, f/7.1, 4000 ISO.
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