75 cents unopened, 5 cents opened.
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Comment by Ten13:
Not sure I get the title concept, but this is a pretty good shot of the can. A little unfocused at the top. Colors of the can are nice.

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Comment by ronners:
[Critique Club]

By very strange coincidence, I was at the Steinhardt Aquarium a few weeks ago, so I might just have some additional insight for you;)

First of all, nicely composed and focussed shot. If I remember correctly, ths lizard house is pretty dark, and that explains the wide open aperture and unfortunately shallow DOF. I'd have liked to have seen just a bit more of the Iguana (?) in focus. The use of flash in these dark conditions has left you with a blown out foreground and detail-free background. Again, however, this is a consquence of the shooting conditions, so I can understand.

I'm not sure if they would let you use a tripod, but that would be the way to go here. If you could get away with no flash you would have much better color saturation and contrast. I'm not sure if it's possible with your camera, but another alternative may have been to push up the ISO as far as it could go - again, with the intention of obviating the use of the flash.

All in all though, a nice composition (I presume you had to shoot from a low angle to get this one) and a powerful choice of subject.

Ron.

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Comment by ursula:
Funny! Is there a book called that? Good picture.

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Comment by pcody:
It's a good play on words and I googled it. Yes. It's a "small" novel. This is a case where the author's name should have been included to save people time looking it up. Not that I'm complaining.
I would have liked to see his eye open.

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Comment by vtruan:
Night of the Iguana, would have worked better. A bit more contrast would have helped the photo.

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Comment by Rooster:
nice macro shot. The focal points are great- the face & the claws!

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Comment by Cathy:
Cute!

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Comment by Shelley:
I am not sure that this is quite legit as a book title, but who cares, I love your sense of humor, and the shot is nice too

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Comment by GoodEnd:
Do you really know of existence of this book? Beautiful lizard, but what abaout the book?

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Comment by amsmyth:
I'll take your word for the title...the folded leaf shape on the right is very distracting, the lizard is crisdp and clear