Squirrels are pretty common stupid things that I tend to photograph when I'm bored. Anyone else?
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Squirrels are pretty common stupid things that I tend to photograph when I'm bored. Anyone else?
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Canon 40D, 200mm, f4, 1/100s
We call them possums over here in Australia. This took place a few yards from my back yard. It is a picture of a python magican. He is making a possum disappear. I had to re-locate the snake towards the end of this performance as I have little dogs about the same size as the possum. I rang a vet before I shifted the snake as I was concerned about the health and safety of the snake and for myself. The vet said it is very hard to get bitten by a snake with a possum hanging out of its mouth. Nature ya gotta love it.
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The possum body was about fifteen inches long. The blanket is what I rolled the snake on to to move him to another part of the yard.
Cheers,
Steve
I'll agree....when I'm bored and need a prop....the squirrel is a willing subject.
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Here's one from earlier this year:
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Nice red squirrel John....but what did you do in PP to make the 3200 ISO look this good? I rarely go above 1200 w/my 7D......
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That's too funny! I want to come down on holiday and hang out with you!
Paul
Plenty of room down here Paul, you'll be very welcome.
This shot was at the beginning of the vanishing act, you can just see his beady little snake eye. The snake is about three inches in diameter and he was wrapped around to crush the possum, to swallow it a bit easier. His jaw is dislocated at this stage.
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Cute, hey?
.......and I'll abuse chipmunks when given the opportunity.
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Hey, Steve - Out of curiousity, what do you call what we consider "possum" then in your neck of the woods???
Squirrels ...and chipmunks are always a great standby when there is nothing else available to shoot ...
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Denise
First attempt to post, hope I get these images linked correctly... :-)
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I've noticed that a few times with your 7D, John! I would never be able to shoot at 3200 ISO and expect to get a keeper!
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Well, I did...literally nothing. [:P]
The shot was from the days when I was still shooting JPG, and except for cropping to an 8x10 ratio for printing, it's straight from the camera. I think the shot works partly because of the (lack of) background color. But, usually ISO 3200 is noisier because when you 'need' to go there, lighting is already poor. In this case, though, lighting was not too bad. Iwas standing on that bridge waiting to shoot birds flying by, so I had it set to M mode with 1/1000 s, f/6.3, and Auto ISO, and I looked down to see the red squirrel running across the railing and grabbed a couple of shots without changing the settings. Shot noise was (unintentionally) minimized because the shutter speed was pretty high, which I think mostly accounts for why this shot looks better than you'd expect for a 7D at ISO 3200.
Yellow Bellied Marmot
She came in our Back Country Camp Site at Yellow Stone and decided to hang out a while.
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Thanks John....I
chippy - 24-105mm f/4L @ 105mm, 1/320s, f/5.6, ISO 100
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red munch - 85mm f/1.8 @ 85mm, 1/250s, f/2.5, ISO 1600
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red munch2- 24-105mm f/4L @ 105mm, 1/640s, f/5.6, ISO 800
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red surprised- 24-105mm f/4L @ 105mm, 1/250s, f/5.6, ISO 800
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red female - 85mm f/1.8 @ 85mm, 1/320s, f/5.0, ISO 400
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black pole- 24-105mm f/4L @ 105mm, 1/125s, f/5.6, ISO 800
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black oaties- 24-105mm f/4L @ 105mm, 1/160s, f/4.0, ISO 1600
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black watching together- 85mm f/1.8 @ 85mm, 1/400s, f/5.6, ISO 800
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DavidEccleston - Those black squirrels bring me back to my college days at Kent State. Campus was overrun with those guys. I remember having a great picture of one eating a french fry. Unfortunately, all my pictures of the black squirrels were with film, and I have no clue where that film is anymore.
Steve - Is that a Diamond Python?
**So far Denise
Here are some of my Squirrel pictures taken at a wildlife sanctuary. They model for the camera and in return only ask for a few peanuts.
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And then of course I have those in my back yard that believe they are birds.
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@Denise- we have gliders, which glide between trees, around 200-400 mm long, with a membrane stretching between elbow and ankle. We have bandicoots, which are big rat looking things about 400mm long. And a whole heap of different possums from 200-500mm long. No squirrels, but there is something called a squirrel glider.
@dsiegel- The snake is a common carpet python, non-venomous, constricts and suffocates its prey.Gets to over 3 m long that one was just over 2m. We had one in the roof of our home through winter, but its gone now. Don't know where it went.
All the other animals are the same. Except for these guys.. Could be a gum tree squirrel...nah
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Ohh and then there's the platypus, nobody knows what's going on with that thing.
Cheers.
What a fun thread... I'm enjoying these a lot. These shots have all been on this site before, but I hope that's okay:
"Got a light?"
Red Squirrel, Calgary
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Least Chipmunk, Banff
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Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Kananaskis Alberta
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Oh and one more from this past August:
Columbian ground squirrel, Sunshine Meadows, Banff
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Here's one at Crested Butte...
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I caught this guy in my neighbors backyard while it was raining.
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Taken with; XTi, Minolta 600mm f/6.3 MD manual focus.
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Bare 600mm.
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With 2X extender.
Cheers,
John.
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I know I have another one somewhere...
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That is far too cool. Hopefully he didn't make a jump for you shortly after this shot!
These are some really cool pictures, how do you manage to "shoot" a squirrel? Sit in the forest for hours ready to press the shutter? I
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Perhaps they're just not as common, or tame in your area. City squirrels are much more likely to keep their distance, however I remember going to a park in Toronto where the squirrels would come up and take nuts from your hand. In the forest trails around Ottawa, you often find them only 3-6 feet away, and some will come within 1-2 feet with food being offered. All my shots are with 85mm or 24-105mm, so your 70-200mm should be long enough to get some good shots, even on a non-crop camera.
What I remember of my shots...
The chipmunk was fairly close, maybe 2-3 feet away. He eventually came to within inches of my shoes.
RedMunch was on a branch next a trail. I was 3-4 feet from him.
RedMunch2 was at the beginning of a boardwalk where we feed ducks, along a trail in the woods. The ducks, chickadees, nuthatches, and squirrels are all up for a free lunch here. These guys were probably around 3 feet away as well.
RedSurprised was less than 2 feet away. I don't think he expected to run into my wife, who tooks that shot.
RedFemale - I'm not sure of the distance. My wife shot that one too, and I wasn't there.
BlackPole - Several squirrels, chickadees, and chimpmunks visit this lookout point over on old sand quarry turned into a dog park. He was maybe 3-4 feet away.
BlackOaties - Three squirrels were hungry enough to come close for some of my daughter's cereal snack. One was brave enough to come within a foot or two from us. Again, my wife was the photographer on this one.
BlackWatchingTogether - Not particularly close. Squirrels on common city pathways are more skittish, likely due to kids chasing them, throwing things at them, etc. Still, they're not particularly terrified either. I think my wife took this one too.
Colin,
Squirrel days start one of two ways for me:
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Thanks David and dsiegel, I suppose I
Colin,
My two squirrels were fairly close both times. The black one runs along our fence to get to the trees in neighbors yards. The trees are small since it is a fairly new development so they don't get far from sight. This was the first black squirrel I have seen. They only have the brown squirrels where I am originally from. The brown squirrel is from a park where they are curious, but stay far enough back. I was sitting in a car when I got that shot. As said before, you don't really go out to shoot squirrels, you usually are shooting something else and they just happen to get close.
Thanks Jayson. I actually got a prize for that photo, in the Sunshine Meadows photo contest. I was feeling mighty proud, until I found out that there were only 8 entries! (And two of them were mine). This guy was chirping quite excitedly, so all I had to do was aim and fire off a long burst. Sure enough, one of them got him in mid-chirp.
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Good Day All:
Nice photo opportunity & the best made of it. Many other interesting ones followed. It really is an unfortunate thing when we humans refer to animals as being stupid. If you ever really take the time to observe and study your subjects you will find that they are in fact, far from being stupid. Just my $.02 as a professional guide that deal with animals of all kinds on a daily basis.
Godspeed
Wayne
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I couldn't agree more. Well Said! [Y]
not a squirrel but pretty close.... an over-fed prairie dog from the badlands, south dakota...
photographed with a canon S40, 6 years ago.
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Hi Tim:
I tried to send you a PM but could not figure out how as I did not see the start conversation option on you personal page. So I'll be brief here. Thanks for the support on the animals thing. No offence or criticism intended here for <span class="field-item-description"]dsiegel5151, it is just that when I see people make such statement it just makes me want to take the time to try and get them to look at animals in a different light. Also as a fellow countryman, Thank You for the years of your life that you spent serving our country. If it was not for people such as yourself we would be able to enjoy our lives and Freedom that we now have.We all owe you and your fellow services men and women a great debt of gratitude. <span class="field-item-description"]Thank you very much sir!!!
<span class="field-item-description"]Godspeed
<span class="field-item-description"]Wayne
Wayne, no offense taken. My tone was more of sarcasm anyways. I seem to forget that my joking tone is not picked up on internet forums as easily as in person.
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Good Day dsiegel5151:
You are SSSSSOOOOOOO correct on that the tonal inflections that we use in direct personal contact aren't picked up with the written word. I've messed up on that more than a few times, and I'll bet that if you ask any person that frequents forums or blogs they will admit that they have had a similar experience. So no harm no foul & glad we now know where each of us are coming from.
Have A Great Turkey Day Everyone
Godspeed
Wayne
Squirrels are great: they are cute, easy to photograph, and most people like them.
here are 3 of my favorites that I have taken. (not cropped or edited)
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I was digging some old pictures for the the Assignment of "Motion Blur" and found this little guy
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thanks for viewing!
I took this shot over the weekend and thought of this thread.....[:D]
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