Chameleon

[BT*ist]

I took the K10D (and its best friend, the FA 50mm 1.4) to Taronga on Saturday to give my new camera a proper workout. My best sequence was probably of the chameleon. Tricky lighting conditions, and it was shedding its skin so there were some unfortunate blowouts. But the lens works, the shake reduction helps (these were hand-held) and the camera, despite weighing about four metric tonnes (six if you attach the battery grip), is a damn fine device!

Originally wanted to crop this behind its elbow to have it staring into space, but kind of liked the detail of its back so kept it in, making the crop a bit odd....
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61147501@N00/615133009/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1199/615133009_637c527405.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="zIMGP1928" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61147501@N00/615132973/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1373/615132973_53ad05fc2c.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="zIMGP1925" /></a>

[Laurie]

not much of a chameleon!
i can still see it!
1st one would of looked 100x better a little bit to the left, i like the 2nd one though. pretty cool animal.

[BT*ist]

Good call : re : first shot. And true : re : camouflage. They really should put them in an environment that makes it work a whole lot harder to blend in. Like an a chessboard-patterned enclosure. (Incidentally, do chameleons suffer from dead pixels??)

Anyway, my new philosophy - if you've made a mistake, at least try to make it look deliberate!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61147501@N00/617099948/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1026/617099948_8c7311f96e.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="zIMGP1928b" /></a>

[Laurie]

a better crop, however in doing so you have made the OOF elbow, and branch more apparent

[BT*ist]

 ROFL - it's all true!! Thanks for the feedback, by the way. And I'm going to have one last attempt at salvaging the shot AND taking into account your valid points

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/61147501@N00/621187977/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1069/621187977_29997b0591.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="zIMGP1928d" /></a>

.... well, except for the branch. I'm kind of stuck with that!

[colin_12]

Now that last crop works for me BT.
Regards Colin

[crackatoea]

Very interesting subject. Haven't seen a alot of photos of these. I think they have a face that only a mother could love, but in a weird way they are kind of cute. Thanks for sharing