Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by mist:
5.2? I think voters missed this detail.

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by karmat:
Good capture, but there seems to be a yellow cast to it. Maybe cool the color temperature down a bit?

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by ScubaSteve13:
i really like the compsition in this photo. You can also really tell the definity of the teeth as well as te wiskers on his face. nice job

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by Skip:
that's quite a capture.

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by xXxscarletxXx:
Could benefit from some dodging and burning

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by sherpet:
What a roar, good capture.

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by goc:
hail.

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by mist:
Well-captured, just as his mouth was wide-open. Great detail, you can see the individual teeth. I think actually a 9 for this.

Hail To The King
by qbicle

Comment by clairemlarson:
I LOVE IT! what an excellent pose!

Stargazers
by qbicle

Comment by rox_rox:
I think this is quite an improvement over the first two you posted. Flowers, like this, are challenging because it takes a long focal length to get everything into focus. The Stamens are OOF, but other areas look pretty good, to me. You might try closing down the aperture a bit more to get a bigger focal length. I think you should be able to do this and still have the blurred BG.

Good lighting is a huge part of image quality. Direct light can cause a loss of detail that exacerbates focusing issues. I'd love to see what you could get shooting this flower with softer light and perhaps a reflector. I'm not much help because I use natural light, exclusively and don't have much experience.

Edit to add: I think a less centered composition might give it a boost, too.

Message edited by author 2006-07-24 16:22:55.