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Well, I have had very little exposure to reptiles before today. A reptile rescue group visited the childrens center where I work today and I sure had so much fun! I've always been a bit nervous around reptiles, but these ones really won me over.
This here was a friendly Iguana... I forget the name sorry! He crawled all over me and would leap on the kids off us. LOL. He was super cool. I really liked him. What a great opportunity for the kids too! Comments
 The good thing about taking photos of reptiles is that they're all poseurs; unlike dogs, cats or babies who are always moving and trying to eat the camera, these guys stay calm looking at you.
But talent is still needed to take a picture like this.  This a really cool shot .
-- - "The World Is Not Enough.... and Yet, It's Such A Perfect Place To Start." - "Life's a banquet... and most poor son's-of-b*tches are STARVING to DEATH!"  wow! that's really a great image!
 for me the high ISO noise is not such a big problem: there's enough texture in the picture that the noise isn't too noticeable. but i agree with Todd about trying to get the eye in focus anyway, it's really an amazing shot! M  very interesting photo
  cool iguana.
haha thanks! I leave that up to the photographer though. I think we lucked out since my hair coordinated so well with everything else
 -- "It doesn't matter what you believe in if you think everyone else is wrong" - Matthew Good My stock Gallery: ~raine-angelstock [link] What you feel, is ok! it's never gonna change anyway |
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Unfortunately, the high ISO shows the grain a lot. I like grain sometimes, but with the Iguana having a lot of beautiful surface detail that is one of it's trademarks, I find my eyes being drawn around the whole image and the grain is a little excessive. The ISO level also degrades the Bokeh, which seems to be in important quality here.
I would've attempted to create more ambient light on your little friend here. That would've enabled you to crank down the ISO, to say 1000. And/or, you could've used a tripod and used ISO 1000 or less in AV mode on your Canon. Since reptiles tend to sit still for long periods, a tripod would've worked well. I'm a fellow Canon lover, too. And, I've taken non-flash lit subjects a lot, too. If you have an external Canon Speedlight that is rather new, you also could've used manual mode and set the light output at 1/128 power. I use this a lot now, so I can illuminate close subjects without the flash being really obvious.
As I call it a lot with my low aperture photos, the subject is coming "out of the Bokeh"! Please look at my Macro images.
Please don't take my critique negatively. I'm not being negative. I still take photos exactly like this, but with the addition of a few tweaks I mention above.
Love,
Todd
The blue tones in the background play well against the color of the iguana's body. Overall this is a very good photograph, and somehow the lack of background focus is what brings this piece alive and makes it so entrancing to look at it.
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