Lizard closeup

[sojourn]

This is one of my favorite macro shots of my garden's Western Fence lizards. They have become quite tame and don't mind my 200mm zoom 'eye' right in their faces.

I suppose there is too much unfocused area in the shot, but I got the face in sharp focus and he is looking right at me.

 

[EricD]

excellent eye contact and focus!

 

[Foxman]

I would almost crop off the lizard maybe midway through it's body because it's lower body is pretty distracting. His face is excellent.

This is what I was thinking:

 

[sojourn]

Foxman, yes, I agree, there is too much 'fuzzy', and your cropping brings the important part into better balance.

EricD, thank you. To get this shot I took it off automatic focus brought the lens to its closesest focus and moved in until his face was sharp. After a summer of this I could get very close to all of them.