Northwestern Garter Snake

Posted by ThomasBarbin on Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:25 pm

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Canon 7D mark II
Canon 65mm MP-E 1-5X f/2.8 (at 2X magnification)
Canon 430 EX II with homemade diffuser
1/160 | f/8 | ISO 1000

A Northwestern Garter Snake that let me get close for some photos today. This is 9 photos handheld at stacked together in Photoshop.

I would love to hear what you think, and any critique is more than welcome!

Thomas

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by Matthew Pugh on Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:33 am

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Hi

Well it looks good from here - very well done imo

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by Ron Day on Thu Apr 13, 2017 5:01 pm

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The magnification is so great that I don't think "snake" when I first see it - which is very cool and allows the image to border on an abstract. The technique and image quality is very good.

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by Tom Whelan on Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:32 pm

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Love the closeness and the stacked detail.

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by ChrisRoss on Thu Apr 20, 2017 2:49 am

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Great work getting this close, plenty of detail and comp works well with the curve of the body below the head.

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by StevenDillon on Sat Apr 29, 2017 8:53 pm

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I hate to be in the minority here, but since you asked. For me, I'd like to see more of the eye, but the light has interrupted that area. For example, the really bright spot on the top left of the eye and then the darker shadow below that. I wish that I could see the whole eye as clear and bright as possible. The lighting in general appears to have been quite tricky here and you've done well with what you captured.

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