Green and blue

[Milan V]

Western green lizard Lacerta bilineata

Canon 40D, Canon 100 mm macro, ISO 400, 1/320, f8, tripod
PP: no crop, shadows, colours, sharpness





Best!
Milan

[Sid Garige]

Milan,

I dont know if you had an opportunity to lower your tripod or not. If possible I would have gone lower to put the subject on even green background. Would love to see a tight head shot if you have one.

-Sid

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The colors and eye contact make this one for me. I would crop a bit off the top to make it a pano crop.

[Ed Cordes]

Great eye and great color. I agree about cropping from the top.

[DanWalters]

Really like the color and the detail in the lizard. Like the color of the background as well.

[Harshad Barve]

Fantastic species and nice image , agrred with all good points covered
TFS

[David Fletcher]

Lovely shot. The colors just leap out. Well done. Like the good points covered too.

[Markus Jais]

Wonderful eye contact and colors. I like the composition but would crop a little from the top as the others already mentioned.

Markus

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Killer colors Milan. I agree with Axel about pano crop. Was thinking the same yesterday when I saw your thumbnail. Well done mate. :)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey Milan,
I'm with Axel on the pano crop......will further emphasize the lizard. I like the way you included the entire paw. You may want to try an Art Morris eye DR. fix and lighten the eye just a bit......to further strengthen the eye contact.....but still a nice portrait either way.

[Milan V]

Thanks for all comments and sugestions. Yes, look like that I should crop it from the top. For the pano.. next time on the field, original photo;)
Roman, how you lighten the eye? Im not so good in PS:o

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Milan,
In the re-post I did crop.....but I applaud your efforts to get it right in the field. For the eye.......I blew it up to 500% using the magnifying tool.......then I grab the lasso tool....circle the eye carefully.....then using levels ; Layer>new adjustment layer>levels (you could also uses curves, Brightness contrast .....whatever you are comfortable with...)....white (right) slider to about 220....black (left) to 2.......sometimes you need to blur the layer mask......in this case I was pretty good with the selection so it looked OK. I tried to do it pretty agressively to show a difference....you can do less. Hope this helps.
PS I did 1 level of sharpening also

[Milan V]

Thanks Roman! This really help!

[sree.kumar.h]

The colours and details are just fabulous Milan. I like Roman's re-post. Would love to see a full body shot of this lizard.