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I hope you like this Leaf Tail Gecko as much as I do!

 

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The eyes on this gecko really fascinate me. This particular one had much larger eyes than the other members of it's species available at the time in the "zoo". This was shot sometimes in the summer of 2005, accidentally at ISO 1600!

 

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I think I'm going to keep this Dragon for a while. It's maturing into a very beautiful, well behaved and colorful male Chinese Water Dragon. Took a break from work the other day and let him loose on peices of fabric. I'm not sure, I hope you like it.

 

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I like the aggressive robotic move about this one, I hope you like it too.

 

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I have been looking at this image for at least 10 minutes in it's larger format, trying to figure out how you managed the flying pollen. Then I scrolled down and was truly blushed by your remarks and the remarks Rachel made about my Macros.

 

Like I said before, I really like your approach to photography and critiquing. As far as Rachel goes, she is definitely a rising star in our community, VERY pleased to have met you both!

 

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Very pleasing colors. Now that you have moved from Physics to Metaphysics, I'm just pleased by sitting back, ralaxing and hopping to learn from your creative thoughts.

 

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Thank YOU and bravo, really! I absolutely love this conversion. Sweet colors and the way a garden like this should be presented.

 

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Very interesting and intriguing comment, as always.

My experience is that DOF increase would work if your are not magnifying much and it would be increasingly difficult at magnifications like 3:1 or above where DOF is practically in the range of a few MM, even at the diffraction limit of your tools.

 

This is so because when you focus let's say, on the eyes of the ant you will get one magnification and when you try to focus on the mouth area, then you get totally a different magnification and the pieces would NOT super impose. Also, consider the movement of the subject and your own camera movement as you try to change your focus are, specially if your subject is only a few MM and any small movement of 1mm will totally off balance your composition. You will end up with two images that are not at the same level of magnification and also very possibly a different framing.

 

With a stationary subject this would be easier as you can change the image size and some other tricks and make it work. Also, quite possibly, you get a different metering if you have different elements of the subject and the background in your framing. Having said all that, I have been able to manage a few shots here and there and I'll either post them here or email them to you.

 

For stuff like landscape it would certainly work out specially if you have different exposures along with preferential focusing and do a DRI or manually blend. I have tried this and if you haven't you may try it and share the results.

 

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This time of day is very tricky and it could really fool the AWB on many cameras specially in a colder day and the "pros" have real trouble here. One way to deal with this is to take Custom WB. It will give you much better results but also remember, light changes very fast, by the minute and even by the second.
There are some steps that one can take to correct this. There are even WB correction programs but honestly, often it requires many steps and it's just easier to take care of at capture. OR:
Try taking photos like this in raw. There is simple tutorial I just posted for a friend. Please read, it's really easy and it will make your job much much easier at times like this , I promise!
Here: check this

Although three points of interest seem to work better than two but you have done fine here and i like the lovely tones here.

A warning: Do not get into Macro shooting as you may find it way too interesting!! Please let me know if I can help in any way.
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The capture is good and the light is fine, with a nice catch light BUT the cloud formation is fantastic and I know you didn't do in PS!

 

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I was looking at this very hard while trying to figure out what you may have done to it. Once I scrolled down I burst into a big laugh!!
Well, I must say I like the other photo of this guy better because withought reading your explanation, one would wonder whay you did that PS work on the belly!

I also like this a lot and the composition works well. If I rotate this horizontally, it works better for me and I'm not sure if it would work out as well for you, sort of left brain, right eye connection theory.

Also, your WB may have been a bit on the cooler side. If this was taken on the latter part of the afternoon nad if the light behind her is the light from the setting sun, you are missing the golden rays.

Rachel, Please meet Issa . She is also interested in sincere comments and you may want to give her your thoughts.

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These are all very nice photos you have captured. Agin, wish you a Happy New Year again.

 

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I wish you and your family/friends a wonderful start and a successful year in 2007.

 

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She may be needy but she is still keeping that graceful composure. Fine capture and framing on your part as well.

 

I would like to wish you a very Happy and prosperous New Year.

 

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for the appreciatiation of this Macro. I liked this for the composition and DOF as well, if I may say so!!

 

Have you all a wonderful New Year.

 

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Mohsen, Therese and huy for the kind comment. I too wish you all a wonderful, productive and prosperous New Year.

 

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Therese and Tommy for your appreciation of this photo. I too, like this and have prints of this at the local pet stores.

 

I wish you all a Happy and prosperous New Year.

 

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All dear friends for your very generous comments. I do wish a VERY HAPPY and a wonderful new year for you all.

 

Best regards to all.

The lighting on this is so wonderful. At first I thought there were bulks of ice under the pillars until I realized that it was the light playing it's magic!
I like very much the B+W suggested by Ken as well but I'm still partial to that sapia/rusty look to the piers. It does look a bit tilted to the right though or it may just be the lack of enough caffeine in my coffee this morning!

Have a Happy and wonderful New Year.
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Behnaz and Jacqueline for the visit and I am pretty pleased you liked this.

 

have a very happy new Year to you too as well.

 

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Good capture Stephano and interesting lighting. You have a good focus on the bees and the flower. I would have liked to see a bit less distraction in the background but I know it's often contrary to the DOF required to get your subject in focus with a an adequate DOF. Sometimes though, as you probably well know, it be possible to rotate the camera aby a tiny fraction to find background elements that are further away from the subject to get a better subject isolation. All in all, a fine capture in my opinion.

 

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