Basking

[bhavya joshi]

<abbr title="Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 4:24pm" data-utime="1325588096"></abbr>LACERTID LIZARDS Family of the wall Lizards Basking on Rocks at Little Rann of Kutch (India).
With canon 550D- 100mm Macro
F: 5.0
ISO:800
SS:400
Thanks For Viewing..








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[Steve Maxson]

Hi Joshi. This cute little guy is giving you a nice pose with its head turned slightly toward you. I like the diagonal of the comp and you have good sharpness where you most need it, though I would wish for a little more DOF to get the toes a bit sharper. There are a few specular highlights on the body - between the head and front leg - that could easily be cloned away. You might try some color nr on the background and I would suggest toning down the light spots in the ULC. A few tweaks will take this nice image up a notch or two. :S3:

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Joshi,
Great advice by Steve above....those tweaks will help take the image up a notch. Like him I too wish for a touch more DOF....as mentioned....to get the foot a bit more in focus.

[Julie Kenward]

Joshi, I agree with the other two on changes you could make but I do think you do have a really nice image here. One thing I question is that you had an ISO of 800 but a shutter speed of 400. Surely you could have dropped that ISO down along with the ss and taken less of a risk on getting a noisy image. Remember to keep that ISO as low as you can while still getting the combination of ss and aperture that you need to produce the image.

[Brendan Dozier]

Cute little guy, Joshi, and like the textures, pose and diagonal line. Good suggestions above.

[Ken Childs]

Hey Joshi, in addition to what has already been suggested, I would crop a little from the top and right so the lizard's eye is closer to the UR ROT position. A little more depth would be nice but I do like it as presented. :S3: