Razz Ma Tazz

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:43 pm

This Central Brazilian Rattlesnake is showing off his patterns for us.

180mm macro
captive subject

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:54 am

You know I really like the warm colors and textures in this Mike, on top of that there is lots of detail in there too. One nice looking snake!

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:56 am

Nicely composed. Symmetric, detailed, and only a little bit scary. (Ken does spiders, I do snakes. Or maybe they do us.

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I notice it's sharp corner to corner, too. Small aperture, tilt lens, stacked, or flatter than it looks?

--Rik

Mike B in OKlahoma · Post by **Mike B in OKlahoma** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 12:33 pm

rjlittlefield wrote: I notice it's sharp corner to corner, too. Small aperture, tilt lens, stacked, or flatter than it looks?

The wonders of f/32, combined with shooting downwards onto the subject. And the front of the shot is a bit lower than the back, which helped further. There's a bit of diffraction loss, but not much. Perhaps deliberately on Canon's design team's part, my 180 macro seems to do well stopped down quite a bit, though it is still not a free ride.

This would've been a good use for my 90mm TSE + 2x tc. I dropped the lens <!>

awhile back, and there is minor damage that Canon can repair, but I've put off sending it. I'd prefer not to have dropped it in the first place, actually!

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 9:20 am

Beautiful photo and creature Mike. I cannot look at it for to long. Makes my head spin with the wonderful pattern