I don't normally do wildlife photography. I just don't have the patience for it. But I couldn't resist this one. This squirrel was a regular visitor to our garden and bird table. And as you can see she got pretty ingenious at finding ways to get at the nuts.
Photographically it's not a brilliant shot. 70-300mm lens, at 240mm. ISO bumped up to 320 so that I could get a fast enough shutter to handhold. (1/200s). Aperture was f/5.6 as wide as I can get with the lens to do my best to blur the background as much as possible. The only other thing I did was to pump in a -1 Ev exposure compensation to prevent the white bits of fur from burning out.
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nice……….
You might be off the hook, +Ian M Butterfield — not to worry about being labeled as a wildlife photographer — I don't think squirrels are considered wild. I mean, they've been coming into our house all summer! Very nice shot of this rascal, either way.
really nice, and with what parameters was made a picture?
+Liz Tufte Not wild? This one was positively livid when we eventually stopped it eating the bird food!
+Микола Глибович the shooting info is in the post associated with the image: https://plus.google.com/106287665062204946341/posts/P4uBPDvdy6z
Oh, I guess it wasn't quite ready to eat out of your hand yet, eh? It's quite a battle to keep inviting the birds while keeping the aggressive squirrels at bay.
Excuse me, did not see this information)
+Микола Глибович You are excused! ;-) It's one of the problems of G+ that if you share an image and put the explanation in the share/post then anyone looking at the photo in the albums cannot see the explanation. I wish they would fix that one.