Snake in the grass

spent to day in very difficult terrain trying to find one of these, and although I saw 4 they also saw me and vanished in to the grass, but this lady stayed put long enough to get a couple of shots....


300mm, 1.7tc, large ex tube, and tripod...

Hi Stewart

Good colour and tones in the soft light. The eye contact makes this shot work, everytime I look at it I am immediately drawn to the beady eye in the centre of the frame. Well done, worth the effort.

cheers

Sean

Messy kind of shot, but anything else wouldn't show its envinoment as well. Looks to be lacking a little in contrast....could that be down to shooting through grass close to your lens?

John

Hi Steward

Agree with John re lack of contrast but that said you have done well to stalk and photograph this one so well !

David

Hi stewart,

Nice shot showing it's environment and that lovely eye. As mentioned I also think it needs a tweak in PS

Hope you don't mind but just tweaked the contrast +14 and +4 on saturation

Regards

Rob

hi guys... Thanks for the comments, it was a very dull morning, loads of cloud, and with the snakes being sat in the bottom of tufts of grass, nothing was going my way!!!I did have the help of a friend that new the area very well, and without him I might not have seen any, they are very hard to spot,and all you see is a tail disappearing into the grass, as they have seen you first.Thanks for your efforts Rob it has improved the Picture.................

Looks like you had quite tricky conditions to work in here but despite this you've managed a good result.
The low angle is most effective,as is the virtually unobstructed view of the snakes head.
Does look a little lacking in contrast but it's hard to tell whether it's due to folliage very close to the lens or a levels/contrast issue.A bit of both possibly.