Anolis sagrei

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-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), September 14, 1998

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Beautiful image, Peter. Look at the ridge behind his head! These guys are hard to photograph because they move around so much when you try to get close. I assume this was the 400mm lens?

-- Joe Cheatwood (cheatwoo@ufl.edu), September 14, 1998.

Thanks, Joe. This was with a Sigma 180 macro. This guy was for some reason approachable. Probably a bad-ass male on territory who considered me just one more intruder to be ousted.

-- Peter May (peter.may@stetson.edu), September 14, 1998.

Nice photo...But. I feel that the reas photo is the top left 1/4 or so. The whole bottom half can be cropped, as can about a third of the top right. The focus is the sharp part of the photo from the lizards rear end and in focus feet on up. For me the rest goes. The background is ok, not great but not distracting. Exposure is spot on. Fill flash?

Cheers

-- Bill (Bill.Wyman@utas.edu.au), September 14, 1998.


I like the colours and the background. I think cropping in the lizard would help ( crop off from the vertical middle of the branch). I would have liked a little more head room at the top also. My major problem is the blurry tail which IMO mars an otherwise nicely lit and composed photo.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), September 15, 1998.

I know how hard it is to get close to these guys, have good light, get a sharp focus, and find a background! But IMO this image fails within a superb attempt. I know the earlier advice to crop the bottom doesn't work because you don't want to crop the tail. This leaves you with a partial, tailless subject. Unfortunately the soft focus must stay. The composition leaves the anole? too close to the top with no where to go, and the green corner is a distraction from the otherwise dark background. Otherwise, I definitely like the subtle backlight affect.

Unfortunately, when it comes to these guys, the best pictures come from a near perect parallel shot from the side, thus giving focus over the entire body. If you are lucky, he will flash his colorful neck flap in defense, and make it a keeper.

good luck.

-- Robert Pailes (rpailes@peganet.com), September 18, 1998.



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