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    Hi, this too was shot during my reptile outing last week. While the body get an "interesting" vote, the head gets a "amazing" vote - so, here is the head!

    Camera: 5D2
    Capture date/time: 5 Jul 09; 9:41am
    Light condition: overcast
    Lens: EF 300 f/2.8
    Focal length: 300
    Extender: none
    Tube: 2 x 25mm
    Flash/Comp: none
    ISO: 800
    Exp Prog: Av
    Speed: 1/30 sec
    Aperture: f/6.3
    Exp Comp: 0
    Metering: Evaluative
    WB: Auto
    AF Drive: One Shot
    Tripod: yes

    All C&Cs gratefully appreciated!
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    looks like a Boyd's Forest Dragon. Very cool! i wish for a little more DOF to get the snout razor sharp and also a bit of NR, that BG is a tad noisy. But, great things can be made of this Jay! :)

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    Agree with comments already made. Have seen some fabulous results from stacking if the subject would have allowed it, but don't ask me on that one, as yet to try. :). The details in the head are quite incredible Jay and thanks for sharing.

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    Hi and thanks for the comments. This is the original unedited with no PP. The lizard was put onto the tree in a kinda dark location. It would have been a good opportunity to also play with some fill flash with my LumiQuest (Thanks Chas ;)). While I know I probably could have pushed the ISO higher to close the aperture, since I was shooting into a dark area I realized I was inviting a lot more noise to join me and I am not yet prepared to deal with the noise in the BG selectively. You can see that the image has been significantly cropped and rotated; hence the almost black BG. While I am not a saver of lots of images - I only save what I might print in the future - this is one I am saving to play with once I have a full use of all of the PP tools. :)
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    Jay,
    I love the details in this image. I agree with David and Peter about a bit more dof. Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers,
    Sabyasachi

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    Very interesting head Jay. I also vote or more DOF and a bit of NR. The eye is fantastic and would pop more with these adjustments.

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