Red Squirrel

[Christopher Miller]

This is my best squirrel photo to date. Unfortunately the photo ended up quite noisy and the BG was overexposed. I did my best to fix it; do you think it could be improved more?

Olympus SP-510 UZ
f3.7 @ 1/200, ISO 200
Program mode, pattern metering, auto WB
Processed in PS CS2; cropped, noise reduction, curves adjustment and S/H to tone down the background, and sharpened

[Gus Cobos]

I like the composition Christopher,
The colors and sharp details makes it for me...would suggest on eliminating the three diagonal branches that are touching your subject...aside from this, well done...:cool:

[Alfred Forns]

Hi Christopher Technically fine I would just follow the little critter and try getting it in the open or with a clean bg !! Not all that easy !!!

[Lance Peters]

HI Chris - I agree with Gus - Nice colours and sharp. Those three branches just take attention away from your main subject.

keep them coming :)

[Nonda Surratt]

Chris,

very nice image of a very FAST squirrel! Looks fine except for the 3 branches mentioned

[Cheryl Flory]

Hi Christopher, great opportunity of these tiny and extremely fast squirrels! I saw my first red squirrel last week and got one image. I couldn't even keep track of it visually, let along track it with a camera!

[Christopher Miller]

Thanks everyone for your comments! Here it is with the three branches cloned out. This squirrel froze when he spotted me which gave me time to take one or two shots before he dashed away.

Thanks again!