Praying for food
by Brian Murphy
I was out in the backyard actually trying to learn hummingbird photography when this little chipmunk arrived. He/she was slipping under my fence grabbing sunflower seeds and slipping back under the fence up to the stump of a tree limb.
I think with this pose the chipmunk looks as if he/she is praying and asking for more food or being thankful for the dinner it has.
There is a slight angle upward due to the chipmunk being about 7 feet off the ground.
I like the colors and the eye contact.
Should I have worked with removing a little more of the stump?
This photo is not cropped very much.
Canon T5i
Sigma 150-600C at 313mm Handheld
Iso 800 Due to an overcast day.
Aperture 7.1
Shutter 1/125.
Thank you for looking and all feedback is welcome. I have a lot to learn.
Comments
2 commentsA couple of website issues to start with. I suspect this is fine posted here, but it could also have been posted in wildlife, since it's a wild animal. Just being in your backyard doesn't disqualify it so far as I know. Secondly, your larger image doesn't appear any larger. For a square crop like this you probably wouldn't want to go much over 800 pixels on a side anyhow (though up to 1000 would probably work on most people's screens). Post the larger image in the first of the links you see on the posting screen. If you want to load a separate smaller image (I do so to improve the quality of the smaller image), you can upload it through the second place on the posting screen.
This image looks fine to me with nice lighting and good detail in the chipmunk. I don't have any problem with the stump. If you wanted to emphasize the chipmunk a bit more, you could select it and put in on a separate layer then add a little blur and/or desaturate the oof portion of the bg a bit. I'd leave the in-focus foreground alone.