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Komodo Dragon
Komodo Dragon
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Challenge: Textures IV (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 90-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM
Location: Taronga Zoo, Sydney Australia
Date: Apr 1, 2006
Aperture: f/5
Shutter: 1/50
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 1, 2006

 This is a photo of an Indonesian Komodo Dragon. One of my first efforts for DPC.

Adjusted in camera RAW
AE4: crop, levels, resize, USM and hue/saturation

Thanks everybody for your comments. I just missed the 'brown' perhaps better luck next time. I am on a steep learning curve.

Statistics
Place: 304 out of 311
Avg (all users): 4.2986
Avg (commenters): 4.7143
Avg (participants): 4.0889
Avg (non-participants): 4.6481
Views since voting: 955
Views during voting: 189
Votes: 144
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 04/19/2006 06:49:02 PM
I think that this shot is very well constructed. I like the crop, and flow of the pic. Interesting subject and great color potential. Fatal Flaws: Out of focus. Clarity is the #1 issue in photography. You shot this with a
90-300 mm lens and i would guess that you did not use a tripod. There is a rule of thumb that I will probably misquote but it has to do with the relationship between the focal length and the shutter speed when hand holding a camera. In short you would have reasonably needed to use a 1/90 or faster shutterspeed if you did not use a tripod. Your slow shutterspeed made clarity impossible. I would recommend looking up the correctly stated rule.Its important.
Good luck
--jrjr
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/13/2006 08:36:38 PM
Not very sharp, maybe not well focused. Interesting subject though
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 04/11/2006 08:32:53 PM
Picture too fuzzy. Would have been ok if at least the head was in sharper focus.
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 04/08/2006 09:41:31 AM
Now he "would have been" great! Nice subject..but I'm sure you know what I'm going to say next..................................

................it's blurry!
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 04/07/2006 05:55:03 PM
good capture, if this was in focus it would be great
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 04/07/2006 05:50:02 PM
Looking at this I can definately see the texture etc, but as the shot isn't in focus it's a little different to give it a top score. Maybe a faster shutter speed, bump up your ISO to get that if it's too dark. A great effore though, 7
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 04/07/2006 02:03:05 PM
somewhat out of focus
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 04/07/2006 01:34:31 PM
This image has a lot of movement making it slightly blurred, too bad because the texture of this creature is amazing!
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