one has to really work hard like this
(Picture shot by Harsha)
This female lizard had just laid it’s eggs and was very protective
about them. This is it’s threat display to scare other animals away. Normally
it’s very tough to photograph these lizards, but this female in Bandipur
was very brave and refused to run.
Who is the person who is taking your photo.
Lord Draco!
Thats a Kick Ass Portrait
I can imagine how brave it must have been… one, you on the front and two, ‘harsha’ on its left and then the noise from the camera. Beautiful pic!
Great shot!
This shot validates the principle, “Nothing is as easy as it appears”! Great capture!
JD
one has to really work hard like this or be lucky like me to have them all over in your garden
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Great portrait – worth the effort many times over….
A pity that beautiful tail is out of focus in your portrait.
There is so much you can do with fixed f/2.8
I have them all over too, but they are bloody too tough to get a decent eye-level shot.
Doesn’t it step down to f/32?
Re: Great shot!
The second one is a *great capture* too
tsk tsk KAL
really kal i never expected you to stoop thi slow in photography ..literally on the grnd..a female finally got you down to this level..muahahhah….
–G
Re: tsk tsk KAL
ok that was “this low” damn the space bar
Kick ass!
The second photo is kick ass … shows both the lizard in full pose and the photographer down in the dirt, hard at work!
Lol they seem very well fed in your garden
reversed lens?
I did my fair share of proning, and leopard crawl in the mud last week. But did get some good macros.
Yeah! lots of insects, spiders, butterflies and earthworms… nice place
best viewed large, just amazing
You have f/2.8 lens for a reason. WIldlife you are always fighting for the light and I love the contrast at f/2.8. So I rarely bump it unless the lighting is really bright.
but will it hold when shooting Macro? your DOF is very shallow, so shouldn’t you stop down to get the entire subject in focus?
I know it depends on the kind of effect you desire, but as a general rule. Also, a guru advised me the more you stop down (towards the sweet spot of the lens), you get better colors and contrast.
pheno-menon!
i am just so glad that yathin and your stuff to be up on my list. i feel good.
wow.. thats some courageous lizard.. to make a stand at such close distance.. and a nice click too, Kallu.
I’m always fighting with light when I’m shooting macro. Most of the time at f/2.8, I cannot go faster then 1/200. So I almost always leave my camera at the highest aperture possible.
But that said, yeah I could have pushed it higher in this case, but well I like this effect anyway
maybe she knew ur a ‘gentle giant’ so did not run away
…. good shot ….
NICE!
Hi, I friended you cause your photos are excellent. What kind of camera do you use?
Cheers! Bart
Re: NICE!
I use a Nikon D70 body along with bunch of lenses. I shot this picture with 105mm macro lens.
Re: NICE!
Thanks! This is good to know because I am on the verge of buying a Digi SLR and I am completely torn between the D70 and the Canon equivalent!!!
Re: NICE!
Wait for 2 more months and pick up the D200 from Nikon. Nothing will come close to that one. I will mostly pick that up as soon as it comes into the market.
Re: NICE!
Hmmm, cool, thanks for the advice! It just keep getting better and better!
Keep up the nice work!
Bart
Re: NICE!
Hasn’t D200 already launched price tag around $1900?
Re: NICE!
Nikon has announced the camera. It will hit the stores in time for the december holiday season and is priced at $1699
Re: NICE!
D200 is good. then will come the 30D (Feb 2006), which will be better. Then the..
All that technical stuff….
there go all your readers again K….eff slash two hundred and all the rest of it….oh, well, all I can say is, I **ENJOYED** that picture, and the picture of how the picture was taken! I really do like the “how-we-did-it”s on any of the wildlife channels, so do keep documenting the how-you-did-it, as well as the pics themselves.
One day I look forward to seeing a book of your photographs…and the second section of the book would have the “HWDI” details….
To me your greatest pics remain the one of the tiger in the night, the majestic look-into-the-camera of the magnificient bird of prey, the leaf with the droplets, the coiled-to-spring snake, the butterflies at Kudremukh…er…they are getting too numerous to enumerate!
Good One
This is good one!! did u mange to spot a tiger??!!!!
Re: Good One
yeah
great
simply great!
but be careful so that their secure environment is not threatened.
Cheers. Have a nice time photographing nature!
Roxy
http://www.rock-sea.net/nature
Amazing pic..
–Alpha0
http://geekheads.blogspot.com
The pic was enchanting – a lizard in the “mom from hell” mode! Wish I had such an impressive MFH display to put up for my kids
Shankari