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    Photographed this western ribbon snake hunting tadpoles in duckweed covered pond during the 08 ICF Pro Tour from my permanant blind.

    Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
    Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
    Aperture: 10
    Exposure mode: Av
    Flash: Off
    Metering mode: Multi-segment
    ISO: 800
    Focal length: 1200mm

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    I remember your fine images from that contest. I like the low angle. The eye contact is nice. A lower aperture may have helped blurring the body part behind the head. Overall, a nice image. Thanks for sharing.

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    Super image on all counts
    TFS

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sabyasachi Patra View Post
    . A lower aperture may have helped blurring the body part behind the head. Overall, a nice image. Thanks for sharing.

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    Thanks for the kind words Saby... Notice I was using a 600mmF4 with the 2X.. I usually try to stop down a bit with this combination for sharpness. I like 1 full stop but here I just went 2/3 stop to maintain as much shutter speed as possible and still get better optical quality..

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    Great image... Like the HA and the sharpness of the image. The tongue sticking out just adds to the overall appeal of the image..

    Dave

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    Nice image Dale. Love the look coming out of the duckweed. In an ideal world a little separation between head and body would be nice but you can't always get subjects cooperation:). Well done, I would be happy with this in my files. TFS
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    Nice! Real cool how the tong came out and you see a part of his body in the background!

    I spot some high iso effects (i don't know how it's called in english, the parts you get when the iso go higher)

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    Great use of DOF here Dale, nice lighting, eye contact and tongue out, all good.
    A little NR on BG would further enhance. There's nothing like a good prime to accept TC's well, this really proves that point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by D. Robert Franz View Post
    Thanks for the kind words Saby... Notice I was using a 600mmF4 with the 2X.. I usually try to stop down a bit with this combination for sharpness. I like 1 full stop but here I just went 2/3 stop to maintain as much shutter speed as possible and still get better optical quality..
    Dale,
    I missed noticing the 2x. Opening up 2/3 stops is not going to blur the background much. Thanks for sharing.

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    Good use of DOF, and I like the bright red tongue. If this was mine, I would run some NR on the BG.

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    Very nice Dale,

    You captured the moment very well. Agree that NR would improve the BKGR.

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    Austin

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    I'm getting comments about noise in this image.. It was shot at 800 ISO on my mk3 which should be fine. I looked at the original at 100% and really can't see any noise.. Am I blind? Here is a 100% crop. Are we seeing jpeg artifacts? Raw image looks OK to me. Color blotches are from the duckweed in the BG??

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    Noise looks more pronounced in the OP than it does in the 100% crop above. To my eye it looks mostly like yellowish spots made to stand out from jpg compression (and from a very close up view). And more noticeable on the OOF bottom strip than the area above the snake. Not really all that bad in my opinion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Canuel View Post
    To my eye it looks mostly like yellowish spots made to stand out from jpg compression (and from a very close up view). And more noticeable on the OOF bottom strip than the area above the snake. Not really all that bad in my opinion.
    And thats my point, I think the noise people think they're seeing is really just OOF yellowsish and light spots in the duckweed....

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    Love the red tongue and the low angle here Dale.:cool:

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