Found this snake at Anhinga Trail ENP Was not sure what kind but did seem pleasant so I hit the ground and went to work Not easy finding a good angle for snakes, all my previous attempts have not been successful !!
Comments welcome and much appreciated
Canon IDs
500 f 4.0 IS 2.0X
f 9.0 1/160 sec
ISO 200
Av 0
cool image, al!!!! it looks like one of those ribbon snakes we were shooting at green cay that day with artie!! i like the way the oof snake winds backwards through the frame!! might would tame the light a little in the upper left.
The whole image is a classic composition "rules", and you can see how they work here. The snakes body pulls your eye along. I think it helps that the snake appears to be looking down at you.
Why does the sharpness of the focus fall away so fast when you were shooting at f/9? I think the oof areas still work and contribute; I'm just wondering why it happened.
Gail
I like it Lance !!!! For the one I had posted only the head was sharpened Like yours better !!! :)
Gail consider the image was made at 1000 mm and the snake was not all that far away ... dof is minimal I close down 1/3 stop for added sharpness wide open would have been f 8.0
Al, you even made it look cute! Think it is smiling at you??
I think I would crop some off the top to bring his face higher--more eye to eye with the viewer, and show off the details in its chin/beneath its head.
Snake for Dave !!!!
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