This lizard was practically ignored by the hornbill in the cage which seemed to have had plenty for lunch.
Captured with a 1/2-inch sensor bridge camera and the jpeg generated in-camera for review had shown a washed-out lizard belly. But there was apparently plenty of details in the raw file once converted in post.
The camera had already pushed the ISO up to 6400 just to get a 1/200-second shutter speed. Thankfully, this was adequate to keep things sharp at the equivalent focal length of 480mm. But noise level had crept up to some 12 odd, some of which had need to be fixed in post.
Bokeh from the Tamron 16-300mm lens was a little distracting here so the upper part of the background was ‘burned’ and darkened to make that less intrusive.
The monitor was close to the light in the dark interior of its glass cage. So to keep the lizard from being washed-out, the capture was underexposed by 1-2/3 stops.
Caught in a twisted pose as it scrambled up the shrub to seek a prey. This was cropped to compose. Aside from the leaves, other distractions in the background were darkened away.
We had only a little time to record this before the prey would be quickly devoured and the satiated snake would move up the tree. This image was cropped quite substantially. Because I didn’t want to move too near and end up frightening the snake into abandoning its meal. Another lizard elsewhere would’ve ended up as the replacement.
This was captured 1/3 stop brighter because of the bright sky originally on the right. Or else the camera would’ve been fooled by the bright sky into underexposing. The sky was darkened by ‘burning’ in post as the white patch could be rather distracting.
ALTA Common Green Iguana sunning atop a hornbill cage in the local bird park. Photo credit: Eleanor Chua.
This iguana was some 50 metres or 54 yards away. Nell had to use the 1200mm equivalent crop to capture this and biasing it darker by 1-2/3 stops to keep the highlights. Image was cropped to compose in post.
Helluva Times 