Beware Lens Thief !!

Muineach

see photo below, then read this: (yes, elven even more foxy photo's)

Yes that is my Canon IS USM 17-85MM, that god I had the lens cover/cap on it

The fox called around this evening and with the sun out I decided to take some photo's as usual, so he came closer and closer, I didn't like the shots I was getting so I kept throwing some food further back till he was in a, "sweet" spot for me anyway.

As I was changing the lens to a 70-300mm, I left the lens (17-85mm) down beside me and was fumbling in a bag for other stuff, I saw him come in but presumed it was for the food I had been giving him, which was in a bag about 3 feet away from the lens. I took some more photo's of him at the bag and watched him sniff the lens, never expected him to bloody try to carry it off with him, as you can imagine I "shushed" him away. No harm done.

Still working on the title and the ps for it, btw, I just thought you'd all get a laugh out of it



Lens Thief!!

Fajitas!

Thought he'd have at least went for the white one with the red stripe

evilhomer

Hehe, Really nice photo that!

The eyes look great. Well done.

Valentia

LOL. Brilliant story, great shot!!!

Muineach

Fajitas! wrote:

Thought he'd have at least went for the white one with the red stripe

if only i had one of those :rolleyes:

ThOnda

Brilliant!

City-Exile

Class picture!

Victor

I saw a fox in Rathmines carrying something "expensive lens sized" in its mouth. Coincidence?

BTW, the reason the fox went for the lens is because it smelt of the food as you handled it.

Also, never eat sausage based foods near a dog.

AnCatDubh

wow - absolutely super. one for the cover of pro photo or the like.

Muineach

Victor wrote:

I saw a fox in Rathmines carrying something "expensive lens sized" in its mouth. Coincidence?

BTW, the reason the fox went for the lens is because it smelt of the food as you handled it.

Also, never eat sausage based foods near a dog.

I know, makes sense now, I got this tip from a UK website on fox's, if you want to feed them, you’re better off giving them sultanas/raisins !
Yea I thought he was taking the urine, but no, he went for the raisins above a nice slice of ham, even sniffed the ham, then he went for the raisins. The idea being that if you use dog food, you'll attract rodents/cats and “fill” the fox up, while fox's love the sweet taste of the raisins, cats/rodents don't seem to like them ? plus your unlikely to fill a fox up on raisins

Cabaal

You wou;dn't think they'd eat raisins alright, interesting tip

Borderfox

great shot, super expression on the Fox...

GristlyEnd

That's excellent.

gerky

Brilliant shot,well worth a magizine cover,
maybe its just trying to take it as payment for all the modeling its been doing.
Or else he has just being trying to get your trust so he could rob you.

the_syco

As for the title, I dunno, how about "The Fox tries to Steal the Shot"?

decsramble

That is an absolute classic. Great shot and great story. You should pick your favorite photo mag and send it to them, seriously, you're guaranteed to win the letter of the month :-) Or even try Digital SLR User for the Shoot the Cover competition. http://dslruser.co.uk/viewpage.php?page_id=65

Rojo

That's excellent!!

Muineach

yea, I must pick up a few magazines and give it a go, odd I never bought a photographic magazine before. the only other place I can think of is "Mooney Goes Wild" on the radio, it's not about money (would be nice though) just it would be to have something published, even if its just on the web.

Any other suggestions ? local papers ? is there an Irish Wildlife type magazine ?

Rojo

I thought it looked a tiny bit dark so looked at it in photoshop... If you do auto colour and auto levels it brightens up real nice!

gandalf

Brilliant shot.

Muineach

Rojo wrote:

I thought it looked a tiny bit dark so looked at it in photoshop... If you do auto colour and auto levels it brightens up real nice!

I'm sure it can be done better, I thought it was funny last night so I just did a very quick PS on it and put it out there

Fionn

class shot - well done

countryjimbo

Excellent shot well done, definitely a seller!

Great example of what be done with a pet fox

Raisins! The ones I know are more partial to hens & ducks :eek:

Muineach

Well I ran it through PS properly and came up with this, you were right rojo, it does brighten up nicely, then I just did a bit of noise removal. Guess now I have to go a whore myself out to magazines etc., ah well first time for everything. I just thought it was a funny incident, that's why I only spent about 5 minutes on it in PS, you live, you learn.

I have a motto, try everything once, then if you don't like it try it again just to be sure

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Rojo

Nice one!!

hmboards

Fantastic shot - well done!

Mooney has a website on rte.ie all right but I'd aim higher if I had a shot like that.

The camera mags would definitely go with that one I'd say with the lens in the shot, as well as the fact that it's a great photo.

Muineach

funny thing was it was the only shot I got of him taking the lens, a one shot deal so to speak, I thought he was just sniffing around it, then a moment of sheer terror as I saw him lift the lens :P

does anyone think that his white fur is gone a bit blue ?

hmboards

Muineach wrote:

does anyone think that his white fur is gone a bit blue ?

No more than in the original. I wouldn't have noticed at all if you hadn't mentioned it.

Valentia

Muineach, I'd reduce the size a bit. You never know who is looking in here or elsewhere. It's worth protecting from greasy hands.

Muineach

Valentia wrote:

Muineach, I'd reduce the size a bit. You never know who is looking in here or elsewhere. It's worth protecting from greasy hands.

Thanks for that, I've changed things in flick so no more "All Sizes", kinda makes the whole tihng messy fo doing a C&C, ah well

Valentia

I have it set up so that my contacts can see the large sizes. Most people here are in my contacts so it works ok for them.

Just realised I hadn't got you in there. Fixed now

Muineach

yep, I just changed it to contacts now, is it worth putting a copyright of x on it ? or should I generally do that for all photo's regardless of the quality ? (PS Action)