Pantalaimon!

[Overread]

Ok so its not his final form - but whenever I think of polecats I think of Pan from the Northern Lights! Anyway some polecats from the British Wildlife Centre

Anyway here to show:

taken with Canon 400D + Canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS + 1.4*teleconverter

f5, ISO 100, 1/320
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/242/3...5d732995_o.jpg


f5.6, ISO 100, 1/160sec
link to larger: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/237/3...1c2575d5_o.jpg


f5, ISO 100, 1/500sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3338/...2e1cebea_o.jpg

and because I am nice have a red too

f4, ISO 400, 1/160sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/...f55a2658_o.jpg

I have a nagging feelng that I have overdone the reds on this lot possibly...................................

Any comments and crits welcome - thank you

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Nice set and cute animal. My pick would be photo #3: good sharpness and great textures and colours. The subject is too centred in my opinion, though.

[Ls3D]

Nearly lost my oatmeal when that red devil squirrel fill my screen! Not because of the saturation, but the scale! If you think it is too saturated, I'm sure a light desaturation would still look great.

Nice to see that 1.4 tele shot looking sharp, I'm evaluating a 3 some with that puppy too..

BTW - My local shop suggested I would not need the IS (of course they did, they had one non-IS in stock), but I am really glad I got the IS version! I like to do low & available light shooting when not in the full blaze of the sun. And I suppose it is correct to say that I can also explore a wider range of apertures with my humming lens.

Cute friends you have there, a some nice compositions.

-Shea

[Overread]

oops sorry - uploaded/linked to the wrong size
and that is impressive catching a hummer with that lens! And yes the 1.4 is hardly a knock on sharpness at all -- and that red is definatly a softer shot (darped darker squirrel pen!

[Ls3D]

No,.. no sorry - I like big shots, but I do get your format and it is easy to make little errors. -S

[misia]

They so cute.