Image taken at Monterey bay aquarium usin Kodak Gold 200 ISO. Minolta Dynax500si with lens 35-70mm. Exposure is about 1/8 sec or so.

-- Narayana Kadoor (kadoor@hotmail.com), December 03, 1998

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Nice but would be better if the eye had less shadow.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), December 04, 1998.

The major drawback of this image is its color balance. My guess is that whoever printed this image did not do a good job of getting rid of the blue/cyan tint that makes the image unnatural looking. The Blue/Cyan tint happens when you expose Gold 200 (a daylight film) under nod-daylight lightening situations, i.e., tungsten light (yellow), fluorescent light (green) mercury lights (green/blue) or simply deeper water (blue) etc. You could have corrected the color when you scanned the image. On my monitor using photoshop 4.0, I darkened the image a little bit and added +97 Red and +45 Yellow to correct the image tone and make it "more natural" looking. I hope this helps.

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), December 06, 1998.

It's a turtle.

As for the picture, ignoring the color, it's cropped too tightly and suffers from the shadow over the eye.

-- Bob Atkins (bobatkins@hotmail.com), December 07, 1998.