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Red squirrel in on a snowy day

Aug, 2021

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Behind The Lens

Location

The photo was taken in Brussels, at woluwé Park. It was in April, a bit cold, wanted to go for a walk with my camera, when arrived to the park, it started snowing a little bit and saw the Squirrel on the trunk, and took some shots of him and this is one of them.

Time

It was around midday or afternoon.

Lighting

Dealing with lighting is always the hardest part, when the light is not there sometimes you just can do anything, or then you have to play the light you have and try to do the right settings

Equipment

I used my Canon 1200 D with a 55-250 mm lens, no flash and no tripod, it was handheld.

Inspiration

I saw the scene like a bit of a dramatic one, it was snowing a little bit, it was during April which is not very common to get snow in Brussels at this period, and I love squirrels, so everything was combined and i really wanted to take some shots even though my camera and lens were not waterproof but wanted to freeze the moment

Editing

I took it in jpeg, I only have a free lightroom App which can process jpeg, unless you upgrade and pay and get the pro version where you can process the raw which is much better. Hence, as dealing only with the jpeg I did some processing on highlights and shadows, contrast... That's it.

In my camera bag

I bought a Canon 70 D recently, so generally both Canon 1200 D and 70 D and 50 mm f1. 8, 55-250 mm f4-5.6, and a sigma 120-400 mm f4.5-5.6 which I bought recently, I'd love to get some other lenses but they are rather expensive for me now.

Feedback

Just take your camera with you everywhere, you never know when to fall on something worth capturing, as for the setiings it all depends on the light, if it's too cloudy then you have to stop down the shutter speed to sometimes 1/80, 1/125 to not bump the iso so high, above all with lenses that stop down to f5. 6 or 6.3, abviously a lens stopping down to f4 or f2. 8 would help a lot to not bump up the iso and not stop down the shutter speed very low, and you get a better depth of field as well, but those lenses are expensive :/. And sometimes you need to spray and pray, when you need to stop down the shutter speed to 1/80 or 1/125, knowing that animals and birds tend to move a lot and are not steady.. So you can get easily motion blur.

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Red squirrel in on a snowy day

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