autumn: little friends

mentos_007 · Oct 29, 2006

I took theese yesterday, on Saturday morning. I drove to the woods with my friend at 9 am, we wanted to get some nice morning sun and last mist. the light was awesome and we met a few little friends:
1. taken at 300 mm

2. also taken at 300mm but I was 3 steps back

3. and the little one, not very fond of posing:

lostprophet · Oct 29, 2006

love number 2, great shot

and its not often you see a photo of a squirrels bum :lol:

Tantalus · Oct 29, 2006

wonderful morning light, nice shots.

Orgnoi1 · Oct 29, 2006

Very nice captures... I am noticing just a slight off-color tone to them though... can you tell me what settings you were using?

LaFoto · Oct 29, 2006

You did well in wanting to capture the early light. Today this light was around an hour earlier

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And of all the birds I ever managed to photograph on one of my rollerblade tours, it was a robin that posed for me (just a little, and in a much more hidden position than yours here). They don't seem to fear humans as muc has (all!) other birds seem to do (or do in my case :irked:

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Well done, I really like the two robin-pics!!!

mentos_007 · Oct 29, 2006

Orgnoi: what do you mean by off - color? flat? WB was set on auto because I moved often from shadows to lights and the squirel shot was slightly improved in PS (shadows)

Corinna: thank you for naming the bird for me.. I had no idea that it was robin... now I have even less idea on how it may be called in Polish

Hoppy · Oct 29, 2006

I love the colour of these shots.
You are lucky to get a shot of a Red Squirrel. In England they are very rare, I was lucky to see 2 a couple of weeks ago when I was on holiday but by the time the camera was focused they had disappeared into the treetops.

Orgnoi1 · Oct 29, 2006

mentos_007 said:
Orgnoi: what do you mean by off - color? flat? WB was set on auto because I moved often from shadows to lights and the squirel shot was slightly improved in PS (shadows)

Corinna: thank you for naming the bird for me.. I had no idea that it was robin... now I have even less idea on how it may be called in Polish

The colors of the branch seem... too "orangey" (ok I know thats not a word...LOL)... what I tend to do in these situations is to use the cloudy WB for most scenery and wildlife since it adds some color but not overly... and you can use it both in the shade and in the sun... but its all personal pref really...