Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by talmy:
Why the shallow focus, strange angle, and annoying background? Lemons are in focus and oysters (I guess) basically cannot be seen.

I Am The Lion.jpg
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Comment by hotpasta:
Thank You Bacchus...I held my heavy 50-500mm lens by hand and shot through a fence (which blurred out as I was 1 metre away). On the original, you can see little droplets of water on the whiskers and hair around the mouth. Obviously, the reduced size here doesn't show this.

I took about 100 close ups while three male lions fed...it was an awesome morning's shooting

Thanks for your comments,

Enzo

I Am The Lion.jpg
by hotpasta

Comment by bacchus:
I have a fairly simple comment for this one:

damn. that's awesome.

!!!

Beautiful detail! And I never thought I'd have a comment like this, but here it is: "Incredibly awesome detail on the nose!" LOL ~ I do mean it, though. This is just SHARP. Very nice!

~ bacchus

Father Kong
by hotpasta

Comment by bacchus:
Wonderful expression on the subject. It's amazing to me how human primates are. Or how primate humans are. You get the point. I see ourselves in their expressions. Not all that different, in my opinion. Only gorillas tend to be less violent than humans.

With the leafy foreground, I like it. I try to do this somewhat when I'm at the zoo. Especially with primates. Gives a sense of being 'in the bush' or what-have-you. Great capture!

~ bacchus

Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by Pug-H:
I think the depth of field is a bit too narrow - we need to see move oyster.

Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by ilwil:
Background is distracting and IMHO, the pic would benefit form a deeper DOF.

Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by philcozz:
This is really close to being nice shot (IMO)... But your DOF is so shallow and as a result what is most clear in the shot are the lemon wedges, not the oysters. It took me a second to figure out what the "aphrodisiacs" were, because they were out of focus. Best!

Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by bs-photos:
a little too much of the picture is out of focus

Christie
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Comment by MudHut:
Great shot the dof is wonderful good work

Aphrodisiacs with Lemon
by hotpasta

Comment by Tom_Robbrecht:
The image does not really tell me what the dish is. Can't really make it out without the clue from your title.
Perhaps a more diagonal presentation of the dish would have worked better.