Can you hear me now.??

[David Smith]

Taken in my backyard.. These two were real friendly.. Mating season must have been just around the corner..

Canon 40D
100-400L @ 300mm
1/500 @ F8 ISO400
Auto WB
Eval. metering
AV Mode

[Robert Amoruso]

Hi Dave.

An appealing image. I like the diagonal of the log plus its detail. The squirrels are posed well with good head angles and the paw of the back one on the others shoulder is a nice touch. Only way for that to be better would be the rear one having the face up higher and not behind the others ear.

The BG is noisy. Actually I see noise in the log and critters but that is much less noticeable. I reposted where I did a Gaussian blur at 1 pixel on a BG copy and then created a mask on that layer and painted black over the log and squirrels.

I also decided to crop it as the log is a bit overpowering to smaller squirrels.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Darling image and the composition is great. Love the poses and wonderful eye contact. Your timing could not have been better Dave. Many thanks for sharing.

[Steve Canuel]

Good timing and a neat image. Robert's critique hit my comments as well.

[David Smith]

Robert:

I like your repost.. Thank you..

Dave

[David Thomasson]

Love it! You surely captured the moment. My repost is just a suggestion for cropping and perhaps dimming the background as if it were in shade (curves adjustment layer) to pop out Frick and Frack a little more.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3143/2squirrelsje5.jpg

[Alfred Forns]

I like the re post David Colors look natural and do like how well they stand out from bg !!