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    Coming after Morkel's Future King - this is a little guy! If you have seen desert images of a lizard on its hind legs hissing and with a big wide open cape-like frill around its neck - it is this guy in a frightened pose. Here, however, I present The Docile Frilled Neck!

    In Mike's class the first assignment was a shallow depth of field; this is one of my full depth of field images. Processed in LR and CS4 (sharpened, hue, contrast).

    Camera: 5D2
    Capture date/time: 5 Jul 09; 118am
    Light condition: overcast
    Lens: EF 300 f/32
    Focal length: 300
    Extender: none
    Tube: 2 x 25mm
    Flash/Comp: none
    ISO: 1000
    Exp Prog: Av
    Speed: 1/3 sec
    Aperture: f/32
    Exp Comp: none
    Metering: Evaluative
    WB: Auto
    AF Drive: One Shot
    Tripod: yes

    All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
    Cheers, Jay

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    Hi Peter, this was shot on a private property near Brisbane, Australia; the owner of which has a traveling reptile show. I was taking a reptile/macro-closeup workshop.

    Interesting regarding your comment about high apertures in light of the macro course I am doing online with Mike Moats.

    In the lesson on full DOF Mike states:

    Time after time the images that sold the best, won contests, and when I would ask an editor to pick the images for an article I’d written, the images with everything in focus were the ones that had the most success. Most images you see from macro photographers tend to have part of the image in focus and part out of focus. As much as I love soft focus abstracts, the images with full depth of field seems to impress more viewers.

    My theory on why people tend to like these images;

    If you look around you will see your eyes see everything in focus, so when viewing a photo with everything in focus, it looks natural.

    With everything in focus you can easily identify everything in the image.
    While I really like the close-up macro image of, for example, a fly's eye with everything else out of focus or a portion of a flower sharp in one portion and fading out from the sharp point, I do generally prefer close-ups such as this of the whole critter to be totally in focus. I am planning to play with Helicon Focus where you shoot a bunch of images and then the software blends the various images with different focus points into a sharp image from FG to BG.

    Thanks for lookin' and askin'!
    Cheers, Jay

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    Excellent shot Jay, as is the information parted. Must take that on board! Thanks.

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    Very nicely done. Wish the tail was in the picture, just to know what it looks like :)

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    Cool lizard Jay! I like the comp and the tail missing is ok by me as it allows a bigger look at the head/body here. I do wish for a better HA though, maybe turned to our left for more eye contact (those little guys don't alway cooperate, do they:D). Also, the throat seems a bit soft but it could be my laptop monitor!

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    Nice capture, I like the detail and the color of the sand against his colors. Only wish to see whole tail and just a tad lighter under the chin. Thanks for sharing. John

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