Grey Squirrels

Hi all, a couple of shots i got while walking through some woodland. I think the squirrels were stealling bird food from a feeder.

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The second grey sqirrel is very good.......... excellent work, not keen on the first image.

Both shots are okay the second one is better on the exposure though, I find what makes squirrel images the best is to capture them doing squirrely things when they are in the trees, they lay over branches they chase each other around in the trees also.

lovely shots............ as DS says the second one is very cool from an exposure/sharpness point of view.............the only thing that bothers me about it is the central position of the squirrel if it had been me i'd have placed the little guy in the upper left of the frame so it would look like he was ready to jump into the space he's looking at below....

it woulda been nice if he was in a tree but you can hardly say to the squirrel "oi go into a tree so i can get a decent shot" a shot on a fence is better than no shot in my opinion.

Nice shots,dont see to many of them round here.

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Man, I have a really hard time doing this... composing a shot based on the 1/3 rules. I'm so used to putting the subject in the center, that its a really hard habit to break. But, I totally agree that if the squirrel were in the upper left of the frame, the composure would have been really cool! Seems to me that I have a ways to go regarding creativity/composure..​.

These squirrels are so fast, they didn't give me more than a couple of seconds to get the shots. All i had time to do was wait for the centre focus light to come on then fire.