Looking at me?
by Gauti

Comment by Gatorguy:
To me, the head looks a little odd just poking out like this. The crop is not tight enough to be a "portrait" but too tight to get a sense of the animal in it's environment - it's kind of in a no-man's land for me. In addition. the focus is a little off on this one. I'm giving it a 4

Parts of my arsenal
by Gauti

Comment by brockangelo:
scratches remind me of when I was a kid, looking at all of my dad's equipment...glad you did this in B&W

Fishheads, yummie ;-)
by Gauti

Comment by Gauti:
This was actually quite difficult shot to get. I hadn't come up with any good idea for the challenge and was gonna let it go past untouched. BUT, then I remembered the dried fishheads, and drove of to a place with nice BG, but no fishheads there anymore. o-oh. Then I remembered this place, on the way to Krýsuvík, just out of Hafnafjörður and hurried over there, because it was already late on the last day of challenge submissions. When I got there all the fishheads were on these wooden racks, about 3-4m above me. Fortunately I had with me my monster tripod (I think it can be used to steady Scud missiles) and my remote control so I could raise the camera up to the max height and shoot with the remote. I was aiming for deep DOF and hoping for the other fishheads appearing in the BG, with low shutter speed and small apperture. Now the light started to fade a lot and it was overcast and likely to start to rain. So shutter speeds to 15-30 sec and hope. Did I mention the smell? And the yukkie fishgutter ground? No, better not. Don't try to imagine it, just take my word for it - I'm not going there again. Finally I found some fishheads that weren't too high and shot this.
I agree with many commentators that the BG is distracting, esp the big white bits.

Message edited by author 2005-07-30 12:03:29.

Parts of my arsenal
by Gauti

Comment by Artan:
I Like the composition and I thik the 2 tone was the right choise - but I would prefer the blacks to be darker.

By th way my Arsenal play at Highbury and are currently top of the UK Football (that's soccer to all you US citizens) Premier League

Fishheads, yummie ;-)
by Gauti

Comment by GoldBerry:
Rolly polly fish heads.
Ugh, nice shot, though. Great dof.

Looking at me?
by Gauti

Comment by rayg544:
Like how close you got - good work.

Fishheads, yummie ;-)
by Gauti

Comment by javero:
Too simple.

Looking at me?
by Gauti

Comment by jaredldr:
Good focus and DOF. The crop could have been better imo. Whatever is in the bottom right of the shot is somewhat distracting.

Fishheads, yummie ;-)
by Gauti

Comment by basia03:
absolutely!

Fishheads, yummie ;-)
by Gauti

Comment by nordicgirl:
Uhhh...im not hungry...but right in subject i think. And who eated rest?