Squirrels eye view

Couldn't believe how close this thing let me get! I was about 3 feet from it, lying on my stomach on the ground to get these!
First two have no Photoshop aside from resizing.
Third one had to be lightened.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/core_17/CloseupEdit.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/core_17/SaycheeseEdit.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/core_17/WhadayalookinatEdit.jpg

Love that last one Corry! Having fun with that canon eh ;)

Yup, you guessed it!

Those are pretty cute! Were you bribing the squirrel, by any chance?

Hehe... great job, Corry! :D That's amazing that you got that close... takes a lot of patience. :P

Those are amazing! Nice job :)

There are five squirrels that are always coming to this spot, right outside the window of th office where I work. (which happens to be attached to my parents house..hee hee!) We have kinda set up that sideyard to be, like, a bird haven almost. There are several bird feeders and birdbaths, and the yard is completly lined with trees, so it's blocked off from everything. We get hundreds of birds, and those five squirrels and two bunnies that come around regularly. They seem to be getting pretty used to us walking out in thier area to fill the feeders or baths. So, yeah, in a way it was bribed. Everytime I made a move it didn't like, it ran away about 5 feet or so..then as soon as it realized I wasn't going after it, it came back cuz it wanted that food so bad!

What would be useful to beginners like me would be the camera used and the setting

Barrie,

It was a Canon Digital Rebel...Aperature 5.6, shutter speed...um...it varied all day cuz the sun was going behind the clouds off and on, so I'm not exactly sure...shoulda been between 60 and 180...dunno...I guess that's 60/1000th of a sec??? Anyone wanna tell me how stupid I'm being? Or tha tI guessed right?

Thanks nice photos BTW

Barrie,

shoulda been between 60 and 180...dunno...I guess that's 60/1000th of a sec??? Anyone wanna tell me how stupid I'm being? Or tha tI guessed right?


Shutter speed and aperture numbers are inverse fractions, for example 60 means 1/60 of a second and 250 means 1/250s. However once you get into shutter speeds over 1 second, it will show on your LCD as 2", signalling that the number is not a fraction :)
The same goes for apertures, an aperture of 5.6 means that the visual diameter of the opening is 1/5.6 the focal length.

You could always pull up the exif information as well, by right clicking on your unedited picture, clicking properties, and going to summary. Under the summary tab click 'advanced ->' and it will show all the info you need.

Here's a good site for exposure terminology
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Exposure/



BTW those are great captures :D

Hey, thanks! THat's what I meant! I knew what I was saying wasn't quite right! Heh heh!

Nice pics Core. some of these are 1/60th of a second? If so you must have a really steady hand since most would have some blur from hand shake in it. :0) I try not to go any slower than 1/250th with a 80mm lense but I could prob get away with 1/125th, I havent really tried.

Very good, amazing shots. It incredible how close you got. Too cute.

Wow... those are great shots. Like the DOF on the last one especially.

Aaron

Yeah, I can get some great dof with that lense I was using (300mm), and plus I was so close to the subject anyway!