Giant House Rabbit

[lemmingzappa]

Got myself a Canon 20D yesterday, which is my first ever DSLR camera. Obviously still getting to grips with everything, but trying to learn as much as I can in manual mode first.
I grabbed a shot of one of our giant house rabbits and I quite like it considering it's one of my first images:

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Looks a bit grainy but I assume that is down to the high ISO, I was struggling to get a natural look with the flash!

 

[Photographiend]

I like your lighting and focus but your background is too distracting and the floor needs to be cleaned up. Cute rabbit though :mrgreen:

 

[lemmingzappa]

I presume if i'm already at the lowest aperture setting there isn't a lot I can do about the background blur? Is the only way to make background more out of focus to use a different lens in this situation?

This was shot with a Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II

 

[echoyjeff222]

You can do one of a couple things:

1. Move the rabbit away from the back wall -- this will help take the wall out of focus.
2. Step away from the rabbit and then zoom in from further away.

And you already did the other thing -- using the lowest aperture setting possible. You could have blurred out the background with one of the first two steps.

 

[lemmingzappa]

If I remember correctly I was already at full zoom at that point. So it was just placement of the rabbit then!

Thanks for your advice, this is all new to me.

 

[echoyjeff222]

No problem -- try shooting your rabbit again, maybe on some contrasting and SIMPLE background to his dark fur. That would really make him look hawt

 

[tirediron]

Typical rabbit; looking disapprovingly at everything!

 

[lemmingzappa]

Here is our other rabbit to give you an idea of how big they are!