Helpful Posts: I visited the Escondido Ecovivarium. This organization is dedicated to rescuing and saving reptiles and snakes... They also use bring these animals to local schools to educate the students. Presently, although their "museum" provides a healthy and comfortable atmosphere for their "guests" it doesn't "look" like the natural habitat. They are in the process of redoing the enclosures to give hem a more natural look...
This fellow was behind a mesh because when he gets excited, he turns red and will possibly bite someone. I shot this with my A6500 and Sony 85mm f/1.8 lens using f/2 to attempt to blow out the mesh...
I uses te 85mm lens again with an f/2 aperture to isolate the lizard's head. BTW... One of the "friendly" dinosaurs in Jurassic park was modeled after thus type of lizard,,,
Again using the 85mm f/1.8 lens but, I stopped down to f/5.6 to get a little wider DOF...
More images at: https://rpcrowe.smugmug.com/ECOVIVARIUM/i-97jg5pV
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18th November 2018, 01:27 AM #1
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18th November 2018, 01:31 AM #2
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Nice series.
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18th November 2018, 01:41 PM #3
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Very nice.
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18th November 2018, 02:38 PM #4
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are the vertical lines in the blue part of the mesh? I do like these shots. And let me see if I understand? With a shallow enought DoF you can eliminate foreground clutter?
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18th November 2018, 02:55 PM #5
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#2 is a great shot, IMHO, although the DOF is a bit narrow for my taste. I think #1 is done in by the very narrow DOF. The criter's front shoulder is in focus, but much of even the near side of her/his head is blurred.
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19th November 2018, 10:03 PM #6
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Brian...
Originally Posted by JBW
Often shooting through bars or mesh, a very narrow DOF will diminish the impact of the bars or mesh. This is most applicable when there is some distance between the subject and the bars or mesh. In this case however, the critter was pretty close to the mesh and it didn't work as well as planned.
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