Snapper Portrait

Gallery: WildlifePosted June 16, 201139 views4 comments

It's nesting season for turtles where I live.

This female snapper is busy laying her eggs alongside a busy highway. Unfortunately, many are hit by cars while crossing roads or while on their nests.

I've always thought their eyes have a certain "beauty".

Nikon D300; Sigma 150; f9@1/320th; ISO 200; HH; FF.

All comments and suggestions most welcome.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Luke Ormand on June 16, 2011 at 7:27 PM

Real nice image. I especially like the mucous around the eye to keep it wet in contrast of how dry/sandy the rest of the turtle is. DOF is perfect here and the oh-so-slight upturn look of the turtle gives a little bit of wariness to her personality.

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Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on June 17, 2011 at 4:01 AM

Nice low perspective and excellent choice for DOF, I love the detail in this striking image Tom :^)

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Comment posted by Brad Hill on June 17, 2011 at 9:10 AM

Hi Tom,

The detail you've captured really shows the texture of the skin of this one well. I have to say that in this image I find the skin and changing patterns in it even more compelling than the eye (tho' nothing at all wrong with how the eye is captured/rendered either!). I agree that your DOF is pretty much spot-on here. My only nit (and it's quite trivial) is that the greens here are so bright that they pull my eye away from the subject a bit - if the image were mine I'd probably tone those down just bit.

Cheers...thanks for sharing this one...

Brad

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Comment posted by Darren Colello on June 17, 2011 at 12:06 PM

Very, very nice detail Tom. A compelling image. Great work.

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