I took the photo on the left using my camera's Aperture Priority mode with an ISO of 800 (going with someone's suggestion to up my ISO) and an aperture of 5.0. I thought it looked okay, a bit on the soft/hazy side so I ran it through Ribbet's autofix feature which you see on the right. Clearly, the photo on the right looks better. Now, just have to figure out how to get that look without post processing......
I'll be real interested to hear if someone can give ideas to produce this change with the camera settings. Love your squirrel, but the post processing one does have more impact!
I'm pretty sure you can't fix this in your camera. The window is affecting the end result. So you need to use post processing to fix it and you don't need to be ashamed of it :-) This is the same problem than when shooting through windows in airplanes for example.
Thanks! Short of "stop shooting through a window", I'll be interested also.
Or I just need to buy a nifty camera like @milaniet 's which, apparently shoots through windows wonderfully. :)