This Eastern Cottontail had taken shelter under the Firebush in my Hummingbird Garden, during an afternoon summer rain shower. I took this, just after the rain had stopped. There was not alot of light, so I used an ISO of 800 and hand held my Canon Rebel XTi with 100-400 lens, as I was squating low to the ground to try to get at the rabbit's level. My camera will genenerally produce a good amout of noise at ISO 800, but I only cropped this image, minimally, so did not have a problem. No flash was used. I used aperture priority at 5.6, which gave me a shutter speed of 1/125 at 400mm. Otherwise, I may have added a little fill light, using Picasa software. If there was any sharpening done, at all, it was very minimal.
Did well having with a clean view of the face Great look !!
Did well with the tech settings, need the ISO for a decent shutter speed. PS wise might tone down the red & yellow channel ... will show more texture/detail in the flowers !!