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My friend the skink in the cemetery

Started Oct 8, 2016 | Photos thread
Robert Evagelista
Robert Evagelista Veteran Member • Posts: 3,448
Re: My friend the skink in the cemetery

Hen3ry wrote:

While waiting for the cruise ship to arrive this morning, I stood in the shade of a tree at the front of the cemetery I had chosen to take my pix from today (cemeteries here are on hilltops and some provide the best view around).

After 10 minutes of stillness, I noticed that the resident skinks were coming out. So having the 100-300 fitted to the GX7, I naturally volunteered to do some free protraits of them.

Pretty twitchy little fellows, skinks, but I got a couple of good shots, with fill-in flash from the pop-up flash to even out the harsh shadows of the very directional lighting only 15 minutes or so after sunrise.

These are OOC JPEGS except for a little cropping of both shots, maybe taking 10% off the frame, and reducing size for posting.

It is so tough to nail the focus on this one.
Such Small eyes and and I know they move a lot and move fast.
Plus they are perfectly camouflaged.

so how did you do it.

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