Chameleon

[Rachel Hollander]

Reptiles also make good subjects for this month's textures theme. This one was taken in the Timbavati Game Reserve, South Africa. While I think Steve preferred using his flash, I played with images lit by the tracker's spotlight.

Canon 5D3
300 II
1/250
f5.6
ISO 3200
Beanbag from safari vehicle, ff, luminosity mask, levels, curves, selective color adjustments, sharpened in CCPS.

C&C welcome and appreciated. Thanks,

Rachel

[Mike Poole]

Certainly fits in well with the 'texture' theme with great detail on the body. I'm not normally a big fan of artificial light, but it has worked well in this instance, The background looks a little posterized, have you done much PP or is it down to the size limits here?

[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks Mike, nothing done to the bg.

Thanks again,
Rachel

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

You did really well under the artificial lighting conditions, great detail, nicely composed and the dark BG really makes the subject stand out! TFS.

[Steve Canuel]

This is a cool shot Rachel. Love the curled tail tip.

[Douglas Bolt]

Very striking and appealing image. Very nice. I wonder if toning down the pinkish leaves located directly below the animal's midsection would help.

[Morkel Erasmus]

This approach works well, Rachel. I prefer spot-lit to flash in terms of look.
No nits here!

[Loi Nguyen]

Hi Rachel, it's tough to shoot with just the spot light. I think you did very well here with good IQ and useable ISO. I think the subject is a little bright. I'd play around with the exposure to darken the BG and reduce the brightness on the subject. Brendon showed a couple of good examples a while back. Loi


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[Rachel Hollander]

Thanks guys for the comments and suggestions, much appreciated.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Very nice shot Rachel I have played around with the highlights I would suggest lowering them a little.
I would have used a flash with diffuser (easy in retrospect I suppose) but I think the light would have been more even.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Rachel i go with Mike regarding night shots .
But this came out not too bad , in terms of look and feel .
Was this overexposed as shot ? Because there is not much detail in the HL and they do look washed /greyed out .
But anyway good to try different stuff .

TFS Andreas

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Rachel, the spotlight was far more forgiving, nicely framed and the 'black of the night' worked as good backdrop.

TFS
Steve

[Dvir Barkay]

Very nice agree with Morkel, I am not a big flash guy as well. Love the textures and the dark background.