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Posted: **Sat Sep 17, 2005 8:53 am**

"My ugly what?"

Capturing Shinglebacks before they scamper off can be a challenge. It looks here like you've hassled it enough that it's decided to stand its ground.

The composition's OK I think (I'm currently on a 1024x768 screen so I can't see all of it at once) but there are a couple of things I can see which might improve it:

The shadow across its tongue is distracting. Not that you had much option about this other than hoping it would move...
The shadows on the left side of the image are quite dark. Fill flash would do wonders for this (and would even tone down that shadow across the tongue slightly).
But flash would have highlighted the OOF grass stalk on the left even more.

If it's not one thing, it's another...

Not bad work though!

Posted: **Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:35 pm**

G'day LD,
You're right he (or she?) is an ugly critter huh... The colour of the tongue is amazing... You could probably just clone out the shadow across the tongue if it's distracting...

Posted: **Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:06 pm**

ugly? He's a beauty.

Good capture of a tricky subject.

Posted: **Sat Sep 17, 2005 5:11 pm**

I think I may have "confused" some by the title, I was really sayinging the shingleback was sticking his tongue out at me as in "I'm ugly"

Definitely not a professional pic by any means, more of what I call a "happy snappy" but iwas pleased with the detail the D2X provided.

Thanks all for your comments

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Yes, I said your Ugly

Yes, I said your Ugly