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    When I went on my killer two-week Galapagos trip I was thinking that there were lots of creatures that stayed still enough to make some nice Grunges possible... This is one of my many favorites.

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    This image of five free and wild Galapagos Tortoises mud-soaking in a small pond was created with the Canon 24-105mm IS L lens (handheld at 24mm) and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/80 sec. at f/8 in Av mode.

    Everyone in the group enjoyed photographing more than a dozen huge adult tortoises in a variety of settings less than a few hundred meters from the spot where our bus dropped us off in the highlands of Puerto Ayora. This image is a five frame HDR Grunge. I did lots of experimenting with HDR Grunge images on the trip; most were created with tripod-mounted lenses.
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    Artie, You have really perfected your technique with this grunge look. I love the image design and the processing. The colors in the mud are great! Nicely done.

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    Saw this on your bulletin, very cool...colors, effect and composition rock...the lead tortoise looks angry..TFS

    Do they do this to keep cool?

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    Nice textures and colors that the technique has brought out in the mud and tortoise shells. I guess tortoises in the mud move even slower than normal, even shooting fast getting five frames without movement of an animal is an accomplishment in itself.

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    Paul, Not sure of why they like the mud so much. They sit in it for a day or two until they are hungry.

    Fred, The program that I use has auto algin and ghosting control features. Those and IS and good technique combined to make this one work well :).
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    Artie, love the detail that you get with this technique. Pretty cool to do it with live creatures. Does the Mk IV allow you to bracket five frames, or do you have to set them manually?
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    Thanks Kerry :). With the MIV you have a choice of 3, 2, 5 or 7 frames AEB. Best of all: if you hold the shutter button down it takes all of the images and the stops.

    If you are on a tripod employing slow shutter speeds work in Live View and use the self timer; push the shutter button once and the camera makes all the images plus you have the advantage of mirror lock.
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    Excellent detail Artie, together with the vivid colours and cool effect. I do like how all tortoises are enjoying the mud.

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    I also saw this in the bulletin and liked it immediately. I was surprised at first since it seems like too much detail everywhere and it made me think just what is going on. Then I decided it was exactly all that detail, along with the colors and HDR effect. Thanks for a great and different inspiration.

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    Arthur, very nicely composed, love the grunge effect here.

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    Hey Artie,
    Interesting look on these with the HDR. Ideally I would like just the 3 that are mostly facing you.....although that isn't my biggest issue. I would definitely crop off the top.....all the way down to the brownish V in the 11:30 position. (browser crop to see the result) For me this allows the water and your eye to visually flow diagonally from the URC and makes the mounds of grass in the upper part of frame a nicer framing element which mimics the lower area. Just a thought for you to explore.

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    HI Artie....very striking image...... the grunge really seems to work here.....I agree that you should consider a crop from the top

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    Thanks guys. I am 100% against a crop from the top. I actually wanted to leave a bit more so that the bush in the urc had a small border but there was some ugly stuff in the ulc.

    For me any crop from the top destroys the compositional balance and thus the image.
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