Manual focus on something about where the badger would be when you take the shot using an object in that position and in visible light. Turn off the auto focus of your Godox flash. When the badger is in frame and where that object has been placed when you set the manual focus, Take the shot, I would assume by a remote trigger. Use a higher F-Stop setting, increasing the depth of the in focus part of your shot would help, even if the badger isn't in the exact correct position, but higher F-Stop setting require higher flash levels, so a little experimenting and test shots before while setting manual focus would help set the stage for that perfect shot.
Question - When you fire a flash at a badger, do they ever come back for a second or third shot? I took a flash photo of our new puppy and for the rest of her life, every time she saw me with a camera, she was gone instantly. The only photos that I was ever able to take of her after that first were taken with my cell phone. No flash so no association with the big black camera.
Back in 2000 I had a Sony Mavica FD-98 camera. A whole 2.1 mega pixels, but it needed light to auto focus. When not enough light existed before the flash fired, the camera would fail to focus, even though the flash would make a good shot. I solved this with a red laser gunsight, modifying it to fit a camera cold shoe and used a bracket with cold shoe attached under the camera at the tripod mount. I turned on the laser before taking the shot and when triggering the camera, the focus function of the camera focused on the red laser dot, which I could later easily remove in Photoshop. I learned quickly to explain how the laser beam was helping with the camera focus, as some about to be photographed thought I was pointing a gun at them. Today my Godox flashes contain the focus assist that produces a crosshatch pattern, and it's on very briefly, so those being photographed don't panic, even when they do see it.
Please post a few photos of them. I want to see your results.
Charley
