Technical: Nikon D90, 1/125 sec, f5.6, focal length 170
Kevin has a thing about chipmunks. He hates them. It’s good he doesn’t have a gun. But Susan shot this one. The upper leaves are overexposed. It’s because there is too much dynamic range in the light. To make it simpler, the upper background is too bright. You can compensate in the camera. Usually the meter will under expose the chipmunk. In order to get everything to look naturally unnatural, you would shoot two images exposing for the light and dark. Or, you could shoot raw and manipulate in Photoshop. I’m less inclined to overthink the image. If you’ll notice the chipmunk is pretty dead center in the image. It tends to get that way when you don’t take time to compose because the critter will only be there a split second.
You can also correct in Photoshop if you know how. I don’t, however! 🙂
George – I suggest a copy of Photoshop Elements. It’s relatively inexpensive (compared to Photoshop). It has enough features to make basic editing and the learning curve is not too excessive. Please let me know if I can help. And you can even submit your shots to me for advice.