Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-25 Thread Eactivist
Nice shot! He's just a teeny weeny little guy, isn't he? Marnie aka Doe :-) This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-25 Thread frank theriault
On 4/21/07, Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be useful but I need to hone my skills more.

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-24 Thread Boris Liberman
(in a stuttering kind of voice, a-la Harry Potter's first movie hero) Fascinatingly sharp subject. Boris Walter Hamler wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved.

Re: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-22 Thread Bob Shell
On Apr 21, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Walter Hamler wrote: Thanks for the input Bob. We have both types here where I live, but I have noticed that the brown one is seemingly taking over by population. They seem very tame and especially when it is cold, like mid 30's, you can actually stroke

PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Walter Hamler
This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be useful but I need to hone my skills more.

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread ann sanfedele
p.s. HIs head looks sharp to me.. , it's his body that looks soft from being out of focus I presume - not that you didn't already know that ;) ann Walter Hamler wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread ann sanfedele
Walter Hamler wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be useful but I need to hone my skills more.

Re: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Maris V. Lidaka Sr.
You've done well, grasshopper . . . er, lizard . . . er, Walt :-) Maris Walter Hamler wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be useful but

PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Walter Hamler
We both are in FL. He was terrorizing my wife while she was planting Iris's under the Sago Palm :-) She doesn't like creepy crawlers! Walt -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

Re: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Mark Cassino
Walter Hamler wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or else he moved. The macro is proving to be useful but I need to hone my skills more.

Re: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Bob Shell
On Apr 21, 2007, at 8:03 PM, Mark Cassino wrote: Nice shot. Looks like he's about to pitch car insurance. :-) Wrong lizard. That's a gecko that sells insurance. This guy looks like a brown anole, a ghastly Cuban invader that is displacing our native green anole (often called, incorrectly,

Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Walter Hamler
Thanks for the input Bob. We have both types here where I live, but I have noticed that the brown one is seemingly taking over by population. They seem very tame and especially when it is cold, like mid 30's, you can actually stroke them on the back and they won't move or try to escape. Walt

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread Brendan MacRae
Walt, at this size, the blur is not noticeable at all. Nice shot. I like that you framed the left of the image with the thorny plant. Better sense of place. -Brendan --- Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso

Re: PESO: Florida Lizzard

2007-04-21 Thread David Savage
That's an excellent shot. Well done. And at this size I can't see any blur. Cheers, Dave On 4/22/07, Walter Hamler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This guy was very tame and allowed me pretty close with the 100mm f3.5 Macro. iso 400, f/10, around 1/60th with SR on. His head is slightly soft or