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Here's Looking at You Kid...

Photography Animals posted on May 08, 2006
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Well, not quite looking at you (he had been a few seconds before the shot was taken), but he certainly can. This cute little fellow is a Veiled Chameleon (and yes, he is little, only about 8 inches long). Like most members of the chameleon family, his eyes can rotate 180 degrees, and independently so. He was just relaxing, apparently untroubled by the 3 year old that had just been beating on the glass (an act that would have got the young fellow a swat on the hand and stern talking to by his father, once he had caught up to him...). A rather tricky shot since I had to shoot through a sheet of Plexiglass (about 1/2 inch thick) and the glass of the tank that he resides in. Thankfully all the extra layers of glass did was filter the light a bit so that I had to do a slight color balance in Photoshop to bring things back in line. Shot was taken with my Olympus E-300, using the 18-180mm Zoom Lens (actual focal length 65mm), ISO set to 800 (noise reduction filter switched on as well), 1/8 shutter speed at F5.4. Comments and crits are welcome, as always. Thanks to all for stopping by and having a look. Bee good to yourselves and each other, remember, it's Monday... somebody is bound to be watching.

Comments (8)


kaze

10:15AM | Mon, 08 May 2006

Very nice colors. Good dof. You only lost a slight bit of color saturation on the subject through the plexiglass, that definitely gets my props. How do you like your olympus e300, btw?

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Mondwin

10:27AM | Mon, 08 May 2006

Beauty and brilliant portrait!!!Bravo!V:DDD.Hugsxx

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spselfr

11:31AM | Mon, 08 May 2006

excellent shot

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jcv2

12:58PM | Mon, 08 May 2006

Great capture of this wonderful creature! Love to see them, wonders of nature!

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redchilicat

1:05PM | Mon, 08 May 2006

Awesome shot, especially taken through glass! Love his pose!

soulofharmony

1:06PM | Mon, 08 May 2006

agree awesome love the light and colourings..excellent macro:)

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claudialee

5:03PM | Mon, 08 May 2006

Amazing photo thru the glass. Funny little creature with the moving eyes, and you have made a very good picture. HUGS!!!

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SamTherapy

5:44AM | Sun, 14 May 2006

Sweet little critter. Great DOF there, buddy.


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