When I am shooting birds at setups I have to chase the squirrels away constantly. Today I let one feed so I could get a shot or two. D800, 300mm, 2Xtc, tripod, flash. 1/200, f6.3, ISO 800. Tweaked wb, exp, blacks, clarity, cropped in ACR. Cleaned up rock and USM in CS6.
Hello Jack-this squirrel is so pretty and so vivid, I want to touch the screen...Not sure about the fern on the right and the OOF fern in front, if this lovely image was mine I would have cloned them out (do not know your position on cloning), I am curious to see what the other members have to say.
I am looking at this image on my laptop now, but I would love to take another look tonight on the big screen-it looks very sharp to me and I love the detail. My Kalahari squirrels look so scruffy next to this little beauty, Jack!
Nice pose and soft light here, Jack.
Good depth from the background - is that all natural, the smooth background I mean? Just forest/foliage rendered nicely OOF?
I don't have a clue what this little guy looks like so I'm not sure if I'm legitimate in saying I see a slight green cast?
Hi Jack, nice chap you got here. The colors looks fine to me, but agree with Morkel and on the green/cyan cast. Just slightly.
I might would pull down also the green of that one single leaf in front of the rock! Just my thought!
Hi Jack - nice pose and detail. I also like the bg and the leaves don't bother me. I'll leave the color to the others as I am not on my calibrated monitor right now.
Hi Jack, well I for one would welcome more of your images, set-up or not.
The 'grey' for us is basically vermin, and not a true species compared to the lovely Red. I like the set-up, but personally would lose the foliage at the RHS, makes it cleaner. As for the cast, well for once I too am viewing on a laptop so will bail out, but you could drop the blue in the whites? Good DOF with a nice clarity & sharpness, nice one.
TFS
Steve
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Thanks everyone for your comments. Morkel, the BG is an OOF dense woods in shade about 40 ft away. As for the green cast I can't see it but will play with the raw file a little more. Thanks all.
Fantastic looking squirrel, Jack!
Colors look right to me, your usual great IQ and I am a big fan of squirrels!
The set up perch (for birds), looks excellent with this guy.