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[moovinfast]

Lets see how I did. C&C welcome.

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[icassell]

Very nice. I like your B/W, but don't think you should have cut off the top of his head. Where did you do your jellyfish? I got a bunch at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium.

 

[rmh159]

Yeah the B&W looks good and really shows some good texture in his face but the background and cut off head kill the shot for me.

#2 looks really good with vivid colors and a shallow depth of field.

#3 looks a bit misaligned with the jelly fish being towards the top of the image. Also this might just be my preference but the upside-down part bothers me a bit. I know these things aren't always floating around right-side-up but it just seems a bit off. Similar to the feeling you get when you see a pic of a building that's slanted. Again, might just be own preference on that but still worth a mention.

The water life shots look good though... could you talk about where you took them and what type of settings you used?

 

[moovinfast]

The sea life was taken at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. I just got back from there. I agree I shouldn't have cropped off the top of his head, but thats how I snapped the pic when I saw what I wanted. I have others where its not cut off, but I don't like them. For #2 and #3 I used my 50mm lens and kept it at f2. Kept ISO at 200 and #3 was at 1/125th and #2 was at 1/90th.