From the critique club:
I had the pleasure to learn a particular detail of this beautiful image. It was taken through a glass! A warm thank you to the glass cleaners, you did a good job and made this interesting capture possible.
The composition and the cropping are on the money. The eye of the snake at the comfortable upper third of the image. The color gives off that cold feel of the subject and the lighter green help contain the chill.
This is a subject that is not to everybody's liking, but the tranquil nature of this specimen has that primal feel as a mythological symbol of the infamous serpent.
Since this was shot with available light we will not even discuss the desire for a smaller aperture to increase the dof. You did well in managing the 1/26 of a sec. Overall, the focus on the head is on the money and the image, exactly as is, has enough strength to attract and please the viewer.
The 5.8+ tells you that the image is worth its salt and one to enhance your port. Looking forward to your next effort.
Awesome! I love the color and smoothness of his skin. There are what seem to be JPEG artifacts, noticable on the lines of his scales and on the edges of the branch. Other than that, it's great.
I'm not a snake lover by any means but this is a great shot. Nice colors, simple background, and good focus. Looks like his head and some edges of the branch suffer from oversharpening. It's not too noticeable but there appears to be bright white specks/pixels. I'm guessing the ISO was higher than normal and it's "sharpened noise" that I'm seeing. Maybe a little less USM would prevent that. Nice job.
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