Early morning yesterday I captured this image of a American Alligator at Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County, Florida. I was undecided on how to rotate/align the image, whether to use the waterline or the slit pupil on the alligator and reflection. I decided to use the slit pupil and let the water line fall as it may because the alligator was at a slight angle to me. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D500
Nikon 500mm PF + Nikon 1.4 III Teleconverter, camera and lens supported by a Oben carbon fiber monopod with a Wimberly MonoGimbal head
1/3200 F/8 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1000 Auto 1 WB, image captured at 700mm (1050mm 35mm Equivalent)
Post processed in Lightroom Classic, Photoshop CC 2022 and Topaz Denoise AI
Cropped for composition and presentation
P.S. Learn more about Circle B Bar Reserve in the BAA Middle Florida Photography Site Guide that Artie and I co-authored. It is available at this link https://birdsasart-shop.com/the-baa-...ic-site-guide/