{"id":2312,"date":"2012-01-14T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2312"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:30:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:30:44","slug":"potd-golden-mantled-ground-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=2312","title":{"rendered":"POTD: Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2315\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080818_Golden_Mantled_Ground_Squirrel_20D_2426_j4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2315\" title=\"Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Colorado\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/080818_Golden_Mantled_Ground_Squirrel_20D_2426_j4.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Colorado\" width=\"512\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One way to make your subject &#8220;pop&#8221; is to isolate it against a soft blurry background.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The way to do that is to minimize the depth of field (the near to far sharpness in the image) by using a long focal length and getting close to your subject. I used a 100-400mm lens at the 400 mm focal length on a Canon 20D camera. Thanks to the 20D&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/Digital\/fov_crop\/fov_crop.html\">&#8220;field of view crop&#8221;<\/a>, that is like using a 640 mm lens on a full frame digital camera or a 35mm film camera.<\/p>\n<p>I was only a few feet away from this Golden Mantled Ground Squirrel when I took this photo.\u00c2\u00a0 The rocky outcropping is at a popular overlook in Rocky Mountain National Park so the ground squirrel was used to people being around, but kept it&#8217;s distance when people were around.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to wait for everyone else to leave to get this photo. It took some patience since new people would arrive as other people left. Finally, I had the area to myself.<\/p>\n<p>I set up my tripod at a good location (with a distant mountainside as the background behind the rocks). I sat quietly, moved as little as possible, and waited. With everyone else gone, the ground squirrel became less nervous. Eventually, the ground squirrel wandered about the rocky area as if I wasn&#8217;t there at all, getting close enough for me to get several nice portraits. When other people arrived, it scurried away and the portrait session was over.<\/p>\n<p>More information on controlling depth of field (two full chapters) can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.com\/learn\/exp_book\/exp_book.html\"><em>Digital Photography Exposure for Dummies.<\/em><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 If you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0470647620\/jimdotycom-20\">this link to buy the book<\/a>, you help support this site (thanks in advance if you decide to do this).<\/p>\n<p>Photo Data: \u00c2\u00a0Canon 20D, 100-400mm lens at 400 mm. f\/11, 1\/250 sec., ISO 100.<\/p>\n<p>You can order a print of the above photo at <a href=\"http:\/\/jimdoty.zenfolio.com\/\">JimDoty.Zenfolio.com<\/a> in the Wildlife or Colorado galleries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way to make your subject &#8220;pop&#8221; is to isolate it against a soft blurry background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,26,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-photographs","category-techniques","category-using-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2312"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2312\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}