Squirrels

A few more for the collection....



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Cool real cool. It is about that time of year for them to start fooling around in earnest.

I'll throw in a couple as well.

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A friend sent me a squirrel image he took in South Florida....

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I've not seen a black squirrel yet Bobo.

Frank, That's brilliant LOL

I only heard about the black ones this week...not much sign of them here in Scotland but thankfully we have some red ones left.

Frank..that really is hilarious. :)

We have the usual grey's followed by the blacks and reds. The latter 2 are much much cuter too. Strangely though outside the house there are only blacks. The last one was shot out the window.

Frank - hilarious but bit sad at the same time. A supermarket cart would be a good alternative.

This guy was resting on the fence head down till I opened the screen door I had hoped he would go back to resting his head....

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Stack of 4 images shot in ISO 200-800 on a 45-200mm set at 200mm f5.6 1/200, stacked images, cropped, set to median to reduce noise, added Jiro effect, added a layer, smart sharpened, masked for finish. Looks a little HDR, may have to refine the process.

Thanks
Ryo

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Originally Posted by Ryogenetic

Stack of 4 images shot in ISO 200-800 on a 45-200mm set at 200mm f5.6 1/200, stacked images, cropped, set to median to reduce noise, added Jiro effect, added a layer, smart sharpened, masked for finish. Looks a little HDR, may have to refine the process.

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Hi Ryo,

May I ask a difficult question?

What was the point of all that processing for a limited dynamic range shot, especially one where the subject might move between shots compromising sharpness?

I am intrigued as to what problem you thought needed stacking to fix.

Regardless of that, the resulting image here has a restricted dynamic range on the histogram and looks flat. :(

Dave, it is certainly not a difficult question. Bad technique is bad technique. So to start off, yesterday when I saw this fella, I grabbed the camera. (should have grabbed the tripod too) He moved his head off the fence when I opened the door but not much movement after. Shooting hand hold I was looking to get the SS up over 160, to do that I needed to increase my ISO. I have a huge fall off over 400, the noise jumps right in. Before yesterday I have been happy to set ISO 100 and leave it at that. So I got a series of 10 photos ranging from 200-800, reviewing them in Bridge I noticed the noise from the higher ISO pictures, and unfortunately the lower ISO shots were slightly OOF. There were portions from 4 photos worth saving, and by stacking them I got my two end-states, one a clearer photo, and second reduced iso noise. I like the challenge. I did say HDR when I should have said over sharpened/ over processed. But at the end of the day I should have grabbed the tripod, and used good technique.

Thanks
Ryo

This is our resident squirrel.
John
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