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Maneater?
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Robert Harrison (seneca77)
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| Genre: Places |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2005-03-19 |
| Categories: Nature |
| Camera: Canon EOS 300D, 18-55mm/f3.5-5.6 |
| Exposure: f/8, 1/200 seconds |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2005-03-31 12:23 |
| Viewed: 578 |
| Points: 10 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
| While hiking through John Chesnut Park in Palm Harbor, Florida, I came across this very large, very adult specimen of the common American Alligator. It was sunning itself along a stand of trees and the only clear shot I could get was of its head - I wasn't brave enough to get around to the other side and include the whole body in the photo! I would estimate its length to be about 12-13 feet long (roughly 4 meters). According to a crocodilian website, the American Alligator sports a mouth containing 74-80 teeth, none of which I wanted to get any closer to than this! |
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I don't blame you for not getting the whole body. This is a good picture all the same. The DOF works well, showing the alligator's headsharply against a blurred background.
- Fisher
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Hey, Robert.
Excelent capture and well done on this composition. I viewed your images, most seem to be O.E.
I'm not sure why? You have a really good cam in your hands. Do you shoot auto whitebalance? If so, set it yourself, you'll find a big difference. next shoot -1 to -3 underexposing your shots abit and in photoshop or alike increase the levels. Hope this may help your next quest for images. ISO setting is a good one as well. 100-400 outside. If you are not doing so yet, shoot manual, thus setting your speed and aperature manualy.
Mike
It give the impression to return directly to the prehistoric time :o)
Impressive! Is there somebody to feed this poor little pet.... I would like too... But... how could i say.. Have something else to do.... :o)
aha! you finally caught one of those crocs in a non-camaflauged moment! oh my apologies.. i mean aligator! (i know how sensitive they get about getting them confused with crocs..) mmmm he does look rather mean.. but i'm sure that's just a defence mechanism.. a lot of humans try to look mean too the stop potential harm doers getting too close! ihih
he actually looks like he's smiling for the camera :) or maybe it's the aligator equivelent of the cat that swallowed the canary? ihih oh oops.. shouldn't use such terminology.. i'm trying to run a vergetarian household here ^_^
well done on this brave shot Robert!
Ayda
Brrrrrrrrrrr....... Scary... Alligators and Crocs are really scary to look at ... Well, good U dint go aound... Nice detail though... The teeth are visible and that looks more scary than anything.... TFS :)
Take care...
- Hima.
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One of my all time favorite subjects to photograph! I have countless images of Alligators in the wild in my files. Check out some of them on TE. If you want a real challenge take a trip to Paynes Prairie in North Florida and hike the La Chua trail. Quite an experience!! I love it there!
Great capture of a beautiful, magnificent creature. In my opinion, NOT a maneater. The loss of their natural fear of man comes from people feeding them and as you know that is illegal in the state of Florida.
In reply to OE, its damn hard to photograph an Alligator in the harsh Florida sun without some part of the animal being over-exposed. Not an easy task or an intelligent one to chase a large predator such as this one in hopes of getting correct exposure.