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    Great Horny Toad

    I was working on bokeh in this shot.


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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    I like it and the toad is very sharp.
    I don't like the pinkish color at top left though
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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    On my screen, it looks very contrasty and bright. I'm not sure if that's intentional. Details and sharpness are great. An interesting background, too.

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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    The BG looks a little textured for some reason, perhaps you could isolate the BG and apply a gaussian blur. The image also looks a little over saturated and sharpened, but having said that its still a very nice shot.
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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    I think the reason the background looks like it has some texture is because the shot is a little over-sharpened ..I think. If you are sharpening from RAW, I know Lightroom, Adobe RAW, as well as ACDsee pro and RAW Therapee have a sharpening Mask. This limits the sharpening to edges only. Try using that, if you can. It will sharpen iguana's head, but not the background. Layering may work as well.
    As far as bokeh goes, looks good.

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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    bright and contrasty for me as well, and the hue seems quite off.

    Also I was at first confused why you called it "Toad," when it is clearly not a toad. So I looked up "horny toad" and apparently its a colloquial term to reference the "horned lizard," and gets its "toad" name because of the shape of its body resembling a toads. Any way, I would definitely change the name.
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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    Thank you all for the great comments. Anbesol, the title also refers to a phrase that Yosemite Sam would say. Does that matter? Probably not, but it is the way I think.

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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    The shot is pretty good Arne, but it immediately appeared over sharpened to me. You can see those little shiny spots that reveal that (and the small artifacts on the edges). Anyway, it's a good shot, and a tough one to get in such a proud head position. I do wish I could see the other eye, but that's probably impossible unless shooting head on. Looking at the second post, it is simpler, but I like it better.

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    Re: Great Horny Toad

    Thanks GB. In the past, my shots were unsharp, so I suppose I am now over-compensating.

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