Squirrel-O-Rama

Paul Amyes · Mar 17, 2012

It's no wonder Tedolf's squirrels look strange, look how he bombards them with donut shaped photos! I'm sure the RSPCA and Animal Liberation would call it cruelty.

Do Koalas count? They live in trees, eat leaves and look permanently stoned.

It's not my fault that Australia's squirrel-ly challenged.

tedolf said:
300mm reflex lens hand held, almost impossible with a moving object.

TEdolph

tedolf · Mar 17, 2012

fotobo said:
While set up and busy taking pictures of a hummingbird at my DIY feeder, this "demon" squirrel came too close and this Anna's mother took flight right up to it and flashed it's wide spread tail feathers. I had never seen this before. I only had a few seconds to point and manually reset the camera focus (135mm legacy lens). Much pp saved some of the shot. Hoping to get another chance at this as this happened right outside my office window.

You'll find better pics of this hummingbird in my hummingbird album.

Attacked by a hummingbird while he was taking a leak!

Tedolph was terrified as he was in .......er..........mid stream so to speak and thus indisposed!

These tiny things are very brave!

fotobo said:
CC welcome.

I do not owe any auto-focus lenses. I have (perhaps dumb) question for those that do: would auto-focus have been able to get both the bird and squirrel in focus in a 1-2 second time frame on my EPL-1 or any m4/3rd?

The first humming bird shot is incredible.

I am continually impressed by what the E-pl1 can produce with good glass (especially legacy lenses) in front of it.

fotobo said:
Thank you,
Bo
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Take only pictures. Leave only footprints.

TEdolph

tedolf · Mar 17, 2012

Enicar said:
Oh, I should not have posted that link as I am not a MFT shooter. Yet. But I will be within a couple of weeks

please do not post links without a photograph as well for obvious reasons.

TEdolph

Buchan-Grant · Mar 17, 2012

I like squirrels but the last one appears to has at a slight disadvantage, fur-wise

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Neil
http://about.me/buchangrant

tedolf · Mar 17, 2012

Buchan-Grant said:
I like squirrels but the last one appears to has at a slight disadvantage, fur-wise
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he is really nutty!

Buchan-Grant said:
Neil
http://about.me/buchangrant

TEdolph

fotobo · Mar 17, 2012

Thank you

. I'm squeezing all I can out of the old gear I have, as going beyond 250th shutter with flash etc. The EPL-1 has made photography fun and challenging again for me.
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Take only pictures. Leave only footprints.

fotobo · Mar 17, 2012

No comment on the story, it is just too easy to come up with so many wrong replies...LOL.

I'm trying to get the bird to feed close enough so I can use my all time favorite legacy glass the Vivitar Series 1 90mm Macro f2.5. Now that will be a challenge!

Thank you for liking the one.

Bo
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Take only pictures. Leave only footprints.

Buchan-Grant · Mar 17, 2012

you look so 'normal'
no one would ever suspect.......
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Neil
http://about.me/buchangrant

tedolf · Mar 17, 2012

Buchan-Grant said:
you look so 'normal'
no one would ever suspect.......
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It is the beard, fools 'em ever time!

Buchan-Grant said:
Neil
http://about.me/buchangrant

Tedolph

javafool · Mar 26, 2012

I'm not sure why, but this little guy wanted to be part of the party.

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E-620 & E-30 DSLRs, E-PL2 & E-P3, Canon S95 & SD4000 P&S

tedolf · Mar 26, 2012

so the sun came out (sort of-light overcast really) for a few minutes in Seattle this weekend.

Damn, this lens has a shallow DOF and I am focus challenged enough as it is anyway!

I used a custom WB and I think I was off.

TEdolph

schirmer · Mar 26, 2012

So many grey ones here. Squirrels have to be red

tedolf · Mar 26, 2012

schirmer said:
So many grey ones here. Squirrels have to be red

Was this photo taken in Ubber Deutchland?

The Balck Forest?

Herr Tedolph

lmeng · Mar 26, 2012

Shot this little guy in Banff, Canada last fall. Not very sure if it is a squirrel.

ktwse · Mar 26, 2012

Only just discovered this but this thread so deserves to go to 150.

Not that I have many squirrel shots...

E-PL2 with 40-150, in Grand Teton 2011 IIRC.

And a bit of cheating...

E-520 with 50-200 SWD, Big Sur 2008.

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E-PL2 / 9-18 / 14-42 / 40-150 / PT-EP03

Greyelm · Mar 26, 2012

tedolf · Mar 26, 2012

lmeng said:
Shot this little guy in Banff, Canada last fall. Not very sure if it is a squirrel.

do the stake out to catch him like that?

TEdolph

tedolf · Mar 26, 2012

it must be the lens!

TEdolph

schirmer · Mar 26, 2012

tedolf said:
schirmer said:

So many grey ones here. Squirrels have to be red

Click to expand...

Was this photo taken in Ubber Deutchland?

The Balck Forest?

From your part of the world quite near to black forest: At coast of Baltic sea ;-)

Beth · Mar 27, 2012

I guess if you are going to post slightly Satanic squirrel faces, you might as well post your own slightly Satanic image? Thanks for these!

For what it's worth, I agree with you about squirrels and their value as precursors to other nature photography. We have lots of red squirrels here, and I've shot them, but they are very old files and not taken with a m4/3 camera. Oh well....

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