Yep, it’s time for another video posting! I finally had a chance to get some squirrels to come on camera Thursday - a very nice test for the HDV camera… Most of the time, they faced away from the camera, like this:

Ol’ Bulging Eye

It’s in those shots that I notice a few things:
• Squirrel eyes are a lot bulgier than I thought… I knew they were large, but…
• The video really shows the texture on the squirrel’s ears as well - interesting look (especially on the full-size version of the above picture, please excuse the interlacing artifacts - it looked worse de-interlaced)

Of course, that picture isn’t the best shot of the mix, and there’s a lot of cool shots where the squirrels do face the camera, but this picture shows off the ear texture the best…

One other thing I found interesting in the video was in the chipmunk segment in the beginning - there’s a mosquito buzzing around it, trying to suck blood from it, and it (seems to) succeed a few times that I saw - it’s a little hard to see (the mosquito) in the web version, but very clear in the raw version!

 

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