Viviparous Lizard (Captive)

Common Lizard

Captive or Controlled in that this was taken @ the lizards wild site but I placed the lizard on the stone before returning him to the heather.

It's that time of year, out from the ground with only one thing on their mind , which makes them quite easy to catch.

180mm/Tpod
250'/F5.6/200ASA
Normal PS

Hi Tom, love those colours, but it's the sheen that really makes it for me, typifying the reptilian character. The OOF claw doesn't worry me, but may others. For me, I quite like to see a tad more foreground and a little less above, but again, just a personal POV.

TFS
Steve

Lovely close up Tom,

sharp and loads of detail

Not quite doing anything for me Tom, the colours do not look right at all on my screen.. Overall it looks quite 'cold' in colouration and very contrasty. Shame because, as stated, there is some nice detail there.

Brett

Will look again when I get home as I have shot of White-bal cards (black, White and 2 greys) taken just before this and the monitor is fully calibrated. It was early morning. Cheers...

T

Hello Tom.

Nice closeup with some very nice detail.

The colour does seem to of on my side to.

Nice lizard but the colours look weird on my monitor.

OK, quickly reworked, color checked, slightly different crop. As a check I have compared the color of the stone to another piece I have and it matches.

Hi Tom
Been back to this a few times.
Beautiful skin structure- like blobs of polished marble !
Never seen one with colours on the head like this though.
Cheers
John

Oh, well, what you see is what you get, and I have just check the calibration on my monitor and it didn't even move a 1% in all channels..

Works for me Tom, both in terms of colours & now with the revised crop.

Thanks

Having seen such a beastie up close and personal recently I'd say the second one looks just about right. I like the 'simplified' approach here, it really draws the attention to the 'design' of the animal. Nice.

Cheers,
Chris