Posts in Category: chipmunk
Chipmunk Posturing
As some of you know I am testing a new camera, the Canon SX60HS, an upgrade (?) to the Canon SX50HS which I used as my primary camera for two years. The jury is still out. There are things I really, really like…but I am uncertain about the image quality overall. I need more time with the camera…more sunny days to give it a fair test. Yesterday was not a sunny day. I went out specifically to photograph moody fall color, but this chipmunk insisted on posing…maybe posturing is a better word…25 feet off the Bridle Path. There were a lot of chipmunks, and they were making a lot of noise. I located this one because it was sitting on its branch yelling at me for passing 🙂
Canon SX60HS at 1365mm equivalent field of view. Cropped slightly for scale and composition. ISO 800 @ 1/160th @ f6.5. Program with -1/3EV exposure compensation. Processed in Lightroom on my Surface Pro 3 tablet.
Chipper
It was so dark in the woods at Rachel Carson NWR on this overcast morning that I had to dial back the shutter speed to get this image. Even then it is at ISO 6400. And not bad at that. Who could resist the pose?
Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 600mm equivalent. Shutter preferred. 1/400th @ ISO 6400 @ f6.7. Processed in Snapseed and Photo Editor by dev.macgyver on my tablet. Cropped slightly for scale.
Chipmunk
On my way back from my photoprowl to the beach at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm Farm I chose the boardwalk trail through the forest, and was rewarded by this Chipmunk sitting and eating berries on a tree quite near the trail. Nothing cuter!
Olympus OM-D E-M10 with 75-300mm zoom. 1200mm equivalent (600mm optical plus 2x digital extender). Shutter preferred. 1/640th @ ISO 2000 @ f7.1. Processed in Snapseed on my tablet.
Chipper Strikes a Pose
There is nothing quite so cute as a Chipmunk striking a standing pose…with those little feet, hands even, and that big eye. This fellow seemed to know he was on camera. At Roger’s Pond in Kennebunk ME…where I was photographing Clubtail Dragonfies.
Canon SX50HS at about 1000mm equivalent field of view. My usual tweaks to standard Program. f5.6 @ 1/1000th @ ISO 400. Processed in Lightroom.
Chipper on (or in) the rocks.
On our way to the car while at Laudholm Farm on Sunday, this little Chipmunk skittered across the path and into the rock pile by the visitor sign. It sat there just long enough for me to get off a few shots at 1200 and 1800mm equivalents on the Canon SX50HS. The angle here is not quite right, but I took a chance even getting to this position, and when I moved for a better angle, the critter skittered again and was gone.
This is the 1800mm equivalent field of view version…1200mm optical plus 1.5x digital tel-converter function. Even if the nose is buried in the juniper, I like the little “hand” and that eye.
Canon SX50HS. Program with auto iContrast and Shadow Fill and 1/3EV exposure compensation. f6.5 @ 1/400th @ ISO 100. Processed in Lightroom for intensity, clarity, and sharpness.
7/18/2011: Baby Chipper in Evening Sun
A little mammal for Monday.
Walking one evening last week, along what is called Parson’s Way in Kennebunkport, a path along the cliff-top of Old Fort Point, between St. Anne’s and the Bush compound on Walker’s Point, we came upon this baby Chipmunk on the sidewalk. He was somewhat alarmed to be caught out in the open and froze. We were able to get close enough for this shot with the long end of the zoom on the Coolpix, before he decided the safer course was flight. The late sun of an Maine evening picks out the detail and color.
Nikon Coolpix P500 at 810mm equivalent field of view, f5.7 @ 1/200th @ ISO 120. Program with Active D-Lighting.
Processed in Lightroom for Clarity and Sharpness.