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A small snake waiting for it's prey to climb closer.

Old photo taken at Copenhagen Zoo August 2012.
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~Poulterghiest Feb 10, 2013  Hobbyist General Artist
Awesome! I like snakes. The color on him is great.
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*Ebonsong Feb 5, 2013
I like that you placed the focus (eye) in one of the inner corners. That is the main thing I think that really helps keep my interest.

I think however the blur effect is way too overdone and not accurate in some areas. For instance you over-blurred under the snake's head, yet the snake doesn't look blurred where it touches the blurred area. You can even see lines where you didn't blend the blurring properly.

The stem arcing outward and down pulls my eyes away from the scene...and then I lose interest in the picture.

The snake also looks a bit awkward with its position but often that can't be helped. Snakes go where they please.

I think if you cut this image down in half vertically (discarding the right side) and then cropped the image so the eye is back to the same corner, you would get a much more dynamic shot overall. In that case I'd lightly blur his body and work on sharpening the head. As well as a touch more contrast would make that snake 'pop' like its ready to lunge at you.
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*Willigenburg Feb 7, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
Actually, the blur isn't added. It's from the depth of field being very small. It's something I wanted to do with this. The photo would have been far more busier and you wouldn't really see the snake as much.

I agree that the blurring could have used some editing touch-up and I will be looking at that when I get time.

I don't really agree with the stem. It's arcing from the other corner of the rule of thirds and actually arches towards the snake.
I see what you want to do with the cropping, but I really wanted the wider image, to show the small snake in a 'bigger' environment.
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*Ebonsong Feb 8, 2013
Ooh that's just from the camera's DoF? That's very odd looking with the lines, I wouldn't have believed it if you didn't say it!

As for the stem, the sharpest part is pointing away from the snake, while the blurriest part points towards. That's why I say my eyes pull away, it feels like it wants me to look at the sharpest/closest part. But you see it differently, of course and that's fine. :)

Btw, I noticed this looks like you photographed it from behind glass - I see a very faint reflection (far right) and what could be a droplet of water near the tip of the top-right leaf. I just wanted to say if you did take this behind glass that you did awesome w/ focusing out the pane.^^

Thank you for your reply. It's nice to hear back from the artist and see how they view things. :hug:
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*Willigenburg Feb 11, 2013  Hobbyist Photographer
The lines comes from different areas of the photo being in focus in the shallow DoF. I see what you mean with the stem, I could try to blur it a bit, it might help ;) .

That's very well spotted! It is taken from behind glass and hand held too. The light is nearly perfect in the exhibition and I was lucky that the snake stayed near the light while I was taking the photos.
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*Ebonsong Feb 11, 2013
A bit of blur might help yeah, but not if you don't want it!

Nice. Seems that snake just wanted to be photogenic for you. :)
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