Green Vine Snake from Costa Rica

[Kristin Brown]

This image is of a Green Vine Snake. It was photographed at a Serpentarium in Costa Rica.

Canon 40D
100mm macro lens
manual mode, f 16, 1/250sec, ISO 100
Flash as lightsource
tripod

[Lance Peters]

Hi Kristin - Wow - havent seen this fellow before, I like the composition although maybe just a bit tight on the RHS. Love the catchlight as well.

Looks a little dark on my screen, I think although not being familiar with the snake it's hard to tell. I would brighten it just a tad and also add just a touch of sharpening to the eye to make it pop.

Well done :)

This is what I was thinking.. (quick and dirty changes)

[Kristin Brown]

Lance, thank you for your suggestions. I am always a bit nervous about "over-sharpening" images. I dislike images that look over sharpened. Here is a re-post of the same image. What do you think? More...less?
Kristin

[Lance Peters]

Hi Kristin - looks about right to me - I cant see any sharpening halo's (dont have my glasses on though). There are a number of tutorials in the Educational Rescources forum on the best ways to sharpen.
:)

[James Shadle]

Looks good to me.
No noticeable halo or noise, just sharp details.
James

[Alfred Forns]

Looks really good Kristin One thing you can do with the sharpening is go to edit >fade sharpen A pop up will show and check luminosity !! Will make a difference and would do on every single image. Might even do an action so you only press one key !!!

[Nicki Gwynn Jones]

Hi Kristin,
Beautiful image I like your repost, it doesn't look oversharpened to me.

[Doug Brown]

Looks good to me Kristin! Don't forget to post at 800 pixels on the long side.

[Nonda Surratt]

Nice re post Kristin..Looks good shrp wise here too..Neat snake

[Katie Rupp]

The repost does this snake proud, Kristin, nice and sharp and I love the colors!

[Kristin Brown]

Alfred,
Does this work with Elements or just with Photoshop? I have searched and searched...may have missed it though. Anxious to try.

Kristin