Tamia de Sibérie (Tamias Sibericus)

Bonsoir André,

le tamia fait partie de ces petits animaux qui attirent d'emblée la sympathie, de par leur charmante frimousse et leurs postures, souvent amusantes.

Le regard est vif et l'attitude plaisante.

Effectivement, l'arrière-plan épuré, fort bien floutté et dont la colorométrie s'accorde bien au sujet est un "gros" plus.

Je trouve que la partie floue du rocher, au plus bas de l'image est peu-t-être de trop, et il me semble qu'un légère aberration chromatique affecte légèrement certaines parties blanches du pelage: présence d'une petite teinte verte à la jonction avec l'arrière-plan que je ne m'explique pas...

Bonne continuation,
Amical.
PIT

Hello André,

My apologies for my critique being written in English - if I tried it in French it would have been totally unintelligible (even to me!).

I'm flattered that you find my website helpful - thank you!

I like your chipmunk image - it IS what I was talking about with my comments about "Simplify and Isolate". The exposure is excellent - I really like the properly exposed highlights on the neck and belly. You also caught a nice "catch-light" in the eye. Well done.

I'm not sure if you were using a tripod or not, but if you were, I'd suggest stopping the lens down a little (somewhere around f6.3 or f7.1) - I feel the depth of field in this image is just a little too thin. You'll find that if you're close enough to your subject (and it looks like you were on this shot) the background will still be pleasingly blurred, yet the entire animal will be in better focus. And the foreground will be too (I find the out-of-focus area in the bottom-left portion of the image a tad distracting). I find that when using the 200-400 on a tripod I often end up shooting in the 1/30s to 1/60s range (with the VR set to "Normal").

I look forward to seeing more of your images in the future!

Cheers...

Brad