Squirrel in the Garden!

wonder_lander · 24 Oct 2009 at 18:44

On a wet and grey autumn day this little chap decided to come into our back garden and break into our peanut bird feeder!

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Beasty · 24 Oct 2009 at 21:54

Fantastic! I love squirrels.

Snapshot · 25 Oct 2009 at 06:14

Beasty said:
Fantastic! I love squirrels.

So does my boss, and he has loads of recipes for them.

kingo15 · 25 Oct 2009 at 16:52

Beasty said:
Fantastic! I love squirrels.

only red squirrels for me not these vermin lol

p0ss3s3d · 26 Oct 2009 at 11:28

I like, perhaps you could've upped the ISO to 800 or whatever to increasse the shutter speed to at least 1/200th of a second as that would really help the sharpness of the shots. I would also open the aperture more to somthing more like f4 (that would halve and a 1/3 your shutter speed on the examples I check the EXIF on) or if not at least f5.6, that would also help blur the background. Also if it was possilbe I would've used a longer focal length, to difuse the background and if you had time again try to move yourself as close to the subject but leave asa much distance behind it as possible.

wonder_lander · 26 Oct 2009 at 12:47

p0ss3s3d said:
I like, perhaps you could've upped the ISO to 800 or whatever to increasse the shutter speed to at least 1/200th of a second as that would really help the sharpness of the shots. I would also open the aperture more to somthing more like f4 (that would halve and a 1/3 your shutter speed on the examples I check the EXIF on) or if not at least f5.6, that would also help blur the background. Also if it was possilbe I would've used a longer focal length, to difuse the background and if you had time again try to move yourself as close to the subject but leave asa much distance behind it as possible.

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate that some of the photos are out of focus and agree that had I increased the shutter speed I would have acheived sharper results.

Unfortunately most of these where taken at the maximum focal lengh that I have available, 250mm. Same with the aperture, I was at the maximum for the lens. Sounds like I need a new lens then

p0ss3s3d · 26 Oct 2009 at 16:48

I forgot to mention that number 6 was my favourite perhaps crop it a tad to around 75% of the orginal size.

Windle · 26 Oct 2009 at 17:42

You didn't shoot it? Greys are little buggers. Long live Red!

kingo15 · 26 Oct 2009 at 17:51

Windle said:
You didn't shoot it? Greys are little buggers. Long live Red!

Lol i was thinking that be refrained from posting that this time.