It's hard to understate how difficult it is to photograph canines, even in captivity. Foxes are the biggest challenge of all. They are constantly in motion. I can't imagine how fast their brains can process information. And they never seem to get tired. It's the action shots that wildlife photographers covet, and the technological advances in our modern digital cameras have made it so much easier to capture amazing pictures. I took this in January 2006 with my first serious digital camera, the Canon 1Ds Mark II. There is no way I could have taken this with my manual film camera. Thirteen years ago, noise was a much more problematic issue than it is now, so I purposely kept the ISO to 100. Even though the day was overcast, the snow provided a lot of reflected light into the beautiful coat of the fox. The frame rate was only 4 fps on this $8000 camera. Today I would have used 14 fps with my 1Dx Mark II, allowing me to capture more than just this one frame in this action sequence. My other settings were 1/640 and f/5.0. I used a 70-200mm medium telephoto to make the shot. My next winter wildlife workshop in January 2020.
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