Crocodiles, up close and personal

photorookie12 · Jan 20, 2011

Australia offers plenty of crocodile shot opportunities, on my blog you'll see a couple more and some tips on how to avoid being eaten during the process. If you have some croc-pics I'd love to see them, post below

The blog page, with more crocodiles.

Light Artisan · Jan 20, 2011

1000mm lens with 2x teleconverter would be my trick :lol:

Nice work!

ghache · Jan 20, 2011

Light Artisan said:
1000mm lens with 2x teleconverter would be my trick

Nice work!

And flying in an helicopter :thumbdown:

Tight Knot · Jan 20, 2011

Light Artisan said:
1000mm lens with 2x teleconverter would be my trick

Nice work!

ghache said:
Light Artisan said:

1000mm lens with 2x teleconverter would be my trick

Nice work!

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And flying in an helicopter :thumbdown:

You are all just a bunch of chickens. Oh wait, I heard that crocs LOOOOOOOOOOVE chicken. Oh well, better stick with the 1000mm lens and 2x converter with the helicopter, and try to keep up wind.

photorookie12 · Jan 21, 2011

Thanks Light Artisan, as a note the one above was shot with a zoom lens at about 280mm, remember crocodiles are generally big, hehe. I find that birds are actually more "difficult" from a lens-requirement perspective.

Tight Knot · Jan 21, 2011

Great shot by the way.:thumbup:

wesd · Jan 21, 2011

The only places I have been able to get shots like that are at the zoos! good work.
Wes

Snakeguy101 · Jan 21, 2011

Nice. Crocs make excellent subjects don't they? Here is one taken from inside a friend of mines enclosure.

ghache · Jan 21, 2011

Nice and sharp! poor chicken

FReed · Jan 21, 2011

That's a great picture. I find crocodiles fascinating animals, used to love watching Crocodile Hunter.
I would love to Photograph one (from a safe distance) but don't tend to see any in Bristol (In the UK)

SabrinaO · Jan 21, 2011

Nice! Maybe get a polarizer filter to reduce the glare. Those are some harsh highlights or is that just his skin? lol

LivinMoore · Jan 21, 2011

Gotta love crocodile teeth. They always seem to be smiling..yet so menacing.

MWG · Jan 21, 2011

Yea crocs always seem to pose for you haha. They always freeze for a several seconds at a time.

Compaq · Jan 21, 2011

I dare you to use a super wide angle lens!

Great shots, I like the with the yawning croc

At least it looks like it's yawning

photorookie12 · Jan 26, 2011

Thanks for the feedback. To SabrinaO, the picture is actually taken with a polarizer, that's why the water is so clear green without reflections. The spot under it's eyes is over-reflected as you say because I couldn't get it right both on the water and the skin. You'll notice that the skin is try around the eyes, and that's why it's more relective....it's more grayish..

Snakeguy101, nice shot, I really hope you didn't get your hand in there, hehe.

Compaq: Crocodiles "yawn" under two circumstances. 1: just before eating something, i.e. they're on the attack, or 2: when they're trying to head their bodies, apparently they head quicker when the sun hits the soft tissue in the mouth as opposed to the skin, they're cold-blooded which means they depend on the heat of their surroundings to keep warm.