Diamond-backed Terrapin

Gallery: WildlifePosted June 12, 201190 views3 comments

Another image of the female* terrapin heading back to the water.

Nikon D300s 300 f4 + 1.7X TC HH from Kayak
f/7.1
1/640s
ISO 640
-.33 EC

Almost full frame (slight crop to straighten the image), sharpened using Smart Sharpen and minor clone in CS5 on 27" imac

*It's assumed it's a female because it's nesting time and the carapace was covered in sand which would occur during egg laying/nest creation.

Comments

3 comments

Comment posted by Harshad Barve on June 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM

very nice image , like the wider perspective

Registered on July 25, 2010, 39 Posts, 210 Comments

Comment posted by Ashley Vincent on June 13, 2011 at 12:10 AM

Judging by her colours, if she wasn't moving I guess she's be very difficult to see at any distance; well spotted Luke :^)

Not sure about the composition though; seems like the subject is a little too centered.

Registered on March 1, 2011, 154 Posts, 2083 Comments

Comment posted by Brad Hill on June 13, 2011 at 8:43 AM

Hey Luke,

Cool encounter and I'm guessing your guess about the gender of this terrapin is probably right - so that must give us about a 50% chance of being right??

Image sharpness and exposure look good here. I'm with Ashley re: the centered composition (at least on the vertical axis - it's obviously off-centre horizontally). Personally, I'd argue for removing some foreground to "ground" the subject and to reduce the prominence of those 3 different focus bands (OOF foreground, sharp mid-ground, and OOF background). But that's just me...

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

Brad

Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments