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Description
This beauty is an Australian Lace Monitor. He/she was combing our campsite for scraps of anything. An unfortunate habit that wildlife adapt to easily. Their normal diet would be anything they can catch from birds to other reptiles and mammals. If I didn’t move too much, I knew he/she would pass me by.
Specific Feedback
Any comments and criticisms are welcome and appreciated!
Technical Details
f5.6 1/2500 ISO3200 100-400@285mm
I overlooked this image because of a large part of a tree that blocked the gaze of the goanna and thought by cropping it out would make the LHS edge too close to the subject. But I decided to have a play. I cropped out the tree and then added Generative Expand and it did a pretty fair job. So I gained room on the LHS and then cropped in from the RHS.
Field Blur on some of the BG and bright spots on leaves reduced by low opacity cloning. A slight gradient blur from the bottom edge and a soft radial blur over the subject.
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Wow – quite an encounter!! Was this a crocodile-sized one? You made the most of a wonderful opportunity and I’m glad you were able to salvage the composition issue, as the image is well worth the trouble. I don’t see any clue of added canvas. Wonderful detail and just the right DOF to show off the head and leg. Good work overall on this!!
And welcome back, Glennie!! I hope we’ll see a lot of your work here!
Glennie - a great look at this guy! Sweet pose and I love that tongue!
Nice detail on the head, and the fade off of focus to the body works well.
Neat catch! And I’m glad he wasn’t interested in you!
What part of AU are you in? We absolutely loved Australia when we were there, just before the horrible fires destroyed so much . Kangaroo Island will never be the same, nor it’s koalas.
Sandy, we live in Ipswich. A city just outside the city of Brisbane in Queensland.
We were on Kangaroo Island just last winter. If you didn’t know about the fires, you may never know the fires went through. The regrowth is amazing. The koalas are a bitter sweet subject. Koalas were introduced onto the island in the 1920’s. Since then, they have prospered to the extent of doing incredible damage to the trees. The koalas were dying of starvation. Wildlife vets were actually neutering males to stop them breeding. So sad that so many died in the fires. I’m not sure how the wildlife people will go forward with maintaining the population.
