Animals "Wild animals in the wild"

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Went back for the first time in 3 years to re-edit some photos of an arctic fox I captured in 2019. Very happy I now keep and shoot RAWs, as I believe I’ve improved my editing skills drastically since then. Finally able to get rid of the annoying bokeh from the originals.

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Wow, well done Chris. And what were the changes made? Sharpening, noise reduction or de hazing? But you don't have to tell. The first one a crop is included. Was it you or did the software improve as well?
Thanks. I’d say improvements to both software and my editing skills. I wasn’t using DxO 3 years ago. But also, I wasn’t selectively editing different areas. Here, I reduced microcontrast to eliminate the busy bokeh the 300mm is known for. Also played with highlights, black point, and vignetting to make the fox pop and the background disappear a bit.
 
Went back for the first time in 3 years to re-edit some photos of an arctic fox I captured in 2019. Very happy I now keep and shoot RAWs, as I believe I’ve improved my editing skills drastically since then. Finally able to get rid of the annoying bokeh from the originals.

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Well done for keeping the raw files, it’s one thing I hope we all do, even if, like me, we store them off the hard drive away from the computer.
 
Well done for keeping the raw files, it’s one thing I hope we all do, even if, like me, we store them off the hard drive away from the computer.
Thanks. And yes, these RAWs from all my older trips are stored on an external drive. I only wish I shot RAW the first couple years I started shooting again when I lived in Colorado and was climbing mountains. All jpgs. Big regret.
 
Thanks. I’d say improvements to both software and my editing skills. I wasn’t using DxO 3 years ago. But also, I wasn’t selectively editing different areas. Here, I reduced microcontrast to eliminate the busy bokeh the 300mm is known for. Also played with highlights, black point, and vignetting to make the fox pop and the background disappear a bit.
I've just batch processed some RAWs from my Nikon E5000 from Bridge. What a difference going from CS2 to CC 2021 made!

When I reprocess the rest using CC 2023, it will be interesting to see the difference.
 
I don't often take the drive around Cades Cove in the GSMNP, simply because it is always crowded with people. But this morning I completely wiffed on a sunrise, to I headed up to do the loop with all the other people. As usually there was a flock of turkeys foraging in the grass and multiple whitetail deer in and out of the forest. Including this handsome buck.

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Soon after spotting the buck I came upon the traffic jam for this CHONKY black bear:

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After shooting it for a few minutes the traffic lightened up. and the buck made an appearance just up the hill from the bear. This really got the bear's attention. He even bluffed charged the deer a couple of times before they both ran off in different directions.

You can just see the deer in the top left of these shots.

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