Eyelash Viper

[Milo Burcham]

Eyelash viper - yellow color phase
Costa Rica

As promised, here is one of the yellow color phase. We found several of these beautiful snakes on our recent trip. I was still missing my tripod at this point and had to brace my camera on my pack and use a large aperture to get this. I refound this snake 2 days later (not 6" away!) and reshot it using a tripod.

Camera Model: Canon EOS 5D
Date/Time: 2008:03:25 10:57:06
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: 5
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +2/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Evaluative
Drive mode: Continuous: frame 1
ISO: 640
Lens: EF180mm f/3.5L Macro USM
Focal length: 180mm
AF mode: AI Servo AF
Image size: 4368 x 2912
Image quality: Raw
White balance: Auto

[Steve Maxson]

What a beautiful snake, Milo. Great sharpness around the head. I'm not sure if more DOF would have helped here - it may have just brought out more detail in the background. The OOF stem in the lower left corner is a bit distracting though there was probably little you could do about that in the field.

[Vincent Grafhorst]

My God that is some scary looking snake! Focus is spot on where it should be. I am not sure what to think of the composition as a whole though, maybe a horizontal or a different position would have resulted in something better.