North American Mink

Posted by JasonLee1977 on Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:31 pm

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Taken while kayaking Summit Lake State Park in New Castle Indiana. This little critter first poked its head our from this large rock pile adjacent to a beaver lodge when I was less than ten feet from it. I had to allow the breeze to drift my boat to get with in the minimum focusing distance of my lens.

Canon 7D
Canon 500mm F4.5 L USM
1/240 sec @ F8 / ISO 640

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by Jeff Munoz on Sat Oct 08, 2016 12:50 pm

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Awesome details and well compose Jason, greetings from Costa Rica!

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by Nate Chappell on Sat Oct 08, 2016 1:43 pm

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Excellent close up Jason!

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by Cindy Marple on Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:26 pm

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Great expression and nice details in this little one. I have to wonder though why you framed it so far to the left, cutting off so much of the animal, leaving so much rock to the right? For me the composition feels somewhat unbalanced- although clearly that's a matter of taste

But what a wonderful opportunity, so lucky to get that close.

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by JasonLee1977 on Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:12 pm

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Cindy Marple wrote:Great expression and nice details in this little one. I have to wonder though why you framed it so far to the left, cutting off so much of the animal, leaving so much rock to the right? For me the composition feels somewhat unbalanced- although clearly that's a matter of taste But what a wonderful opportunity, so lucky to get that close.

You assume that there was more of the animal to work with, perhaps I didn't effectively describe the scene. Unfortunately I did not have much choice but to frame it any other way with only mere seconds to work with, getting my kayak within that minimum focusing distance, and keeping my camera on this subject.

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Canon 7D / Canon 1D Mk III / 24-105mm F4 L IS / 70-200mm F2.8 L IS / 300mm F2.8 L IS / 500mm F4.5 L (Non-IS)
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by Missy Mandel on Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:08 am

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Jason, it looks like you have a lot of pixels to work with. I would love to see this as a tighter crop removing all of the oof foreground and part of the right side. The critter is so well shot!

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