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Born Symmetrical
Born Symmetrical
trolljenta


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Symmetry II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-30D
Lens: Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Date: Apr 26, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 26, 2007

 The amazingly symmetrical shell of the Desert Tortoise caught my eye for symmetry. This one was hatched last summer. The challenge is getting a shot in before they get to close. They are friendly little things and come "running" when they see me.
Tortoises are not slow :-)
Basic level adjustments, cropped, sharpened.

Statistics
Place: 105 out of 249
Avg (all users): 5.7400
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 5.8070
Avg (non-participants): 5.6989
Views since voting: 869
Views during voting: 204
Votes: 150
Comments: 9
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 05/13/2007 11:19:16 AM
[quote=sfalice] Greetings from the Critique Club


Thanks so much. I agree if I had moved the camera a bit to the left the distracting seed to the right in the picture would not be there either. Contrary to believes, small tortoises are not slow but move very fast especially if they think you have something good to eat:-))
My first thought was that the blur focused the baby more, after reading your comment I can see that some of it cropped out would look much better.
Your critique was very appreciated and thanks so much for taking the time.
 05/13/2007 10:28:01 AM
What a cutie patootie! I love tortoises.
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 05/13/2007 10:26:44 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

Wow, great shot of that desert tortoise. Super coloring and super focus on the legs and head of this creature.

It's hard to know what to critique in this image because I like it a lot, but I did play around with the composition a little. Smack in the center of the frame is not always the best composition, and if this guy would let you, an off-center shot would also be good. And if it was mine, I'd probably crop out a bit more of the foreground blur, but that's a matter of opinion and your crop works fine.

So, all in all a good image that met the Challenge nicely and one that gave you a fairly decent score.

Keep up the good work and I'll look forward to seeing more of your work.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/05/2007 11:51:50 AM
nicely captured--great DOF, colors and detail.
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 05/05/2007 05:00:14 AM
The look on his face is great! -8-
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 05/04/2007 05:44:50 PM
Aren't we all symmetrical? - good expression on the turtle, good DOF
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 05/04/2007 08:11:28 AM
He's one mean looking turtle! I like the blurred out effect all around the turtle, but it's too bad that the outer portion of the turtle's shell got blurred out too. Like the colours in the background - they play off nicely with the colours present in the turtle. Nice entry
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 05/03/2007 02:07:32 PM
beautiful depth of field
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 05/03/2007 12:35:15 PM
I love the shallow dof - it makes his little head pop. i really like this.
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