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08/03/2004 07:06:09 AM · #1 |
And hello again!
Here's my second picture for the week. I'm very interested in how to frame and shoot close-ups of snakes. This is a Florida banded watersnake at Trimble Park in Orange county, Florida. Comments and criticisms would not only be appreciated - they would be savored! Thanks again, you all. This is just a great site.
Florida banded watersnake
Thanks once again!
-bacchus
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08/03/2004 07:20:01 AM · #2 |
Couldn't offer any advice about how to...because that looks great to me! Too close for comfort...eeewww. But it's a great shot. Fabulous detail and lighting. :o)
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08/03/2004 08:53:34 AM · #3 |
nice photo - one thing you might try is a polarizing filter - if they have them for your camera - that might help take some of the glare off the scales.
keep it up.
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08/03/2004 10:13:02 AM · #4 |
I've never shot snakes myself but the picture looks good to me. Maybe if the snake was facing you a little bit more would be better but I know how hard it is to get living creatures and bugs pose how you want.
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08/03/2004 11:18:19 AM · #5 |
| I don't think that snake can be improved on. It's gorgeous. Maybe a bit overshadowed by that frame, though... |
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08/03/2004 11:39:38 AM · #6 |
Having owned snakes for a good portion of my life, I've taken a few -hundred - pics of them (oddly never with a digital cam...i must be getting old). One thing I've found is that i generally prefer the look of the pic when the snake is moving subtly upwards in the frame, rather than down. Rotating this one about 10 degrees counterclockwise would do the trick assuming you have enough frame to work with.
Other than that this is great...love the motion blur in the tongue. |
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08/03/2004 01:01:37 PM · #7 |
This is very good! Personally I like the framing, but I might like it better if there was only the inside one with black extending out to where it already is. Two is just to much IMHO. As far as the image itself, the details are really good, composition is good although I wish there was just a hair more room between the tongue and frame.
Great work!!
Cheers....Martin |
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08/03/2004 01:25:21 PM · #8 |
Good eye highlight, good motion capture of the tongue, I agree a slight rotation would help and the framing looks heavy to me as well. Polarizers are great if you can adjust in time, (hard on a living creature but snakes tend to move slow enough most of the time to manage it. Especially if they have to stay on one branch so the lighting doesn't change.) I don't like the edge of the tongue actually touching the frame, I would like to see just a hint more space. Anyway hope this helps.
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08/03/2004 02:08:12 PM · #9 |
| Why did I open this thread? I hate snakes and there was even a warning in the subject title. I must be one of those suckers who click on the Don't Click Here threads too. Eeeps - a snake! Can't look at it long enough to comment - sorry. |
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08/03/2004 07:07:35 PM · #10 |
Thank you all very much for your comments! The black border is just something I use on my website. I agree, it's a bit heavy!
I just hate the fact that this snake's tongue flickered right on the edge of the frame. It bugs the hell out of me, too. It was the only shot I could get with the flicker - and it sort of blows it. "So it goes" as Vonnegut would say.
I've been shooting a slew of snake pictures this season. Still trying to find a balance to it. The up-to-the-camera angle sounds good. I'll defintely start trying that. The profile angle feels a little "turn to the right" book-'em-danno. You know? And yeah, I have a problem of shooting photographs too dark (see below).
Anyhow, here are a couple others from this season - and thanks for your comments!
Blotched watersnake, Norman OK.
Brown watersnake, Mt. Dora, FL.
Same as above - but that's my hand.
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08/03/2004 08:38:55 PM · #11 |
with the tip of the tongue touching the frame
as it is blured why not use the healing brush and just shorten it a little... no one but us will know and we won't tell :) |
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