Lizard (Thoughts?)

[shelby16]

I've been trying to take in everyone critique, so I'd love some more. Here are some lizard shots I did today while out practicing. Shot these with my macro setting on my Nikon D5100 with my 55-300mm lens.
Thank you SO much for taking the time!!

Shelby

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[Chris_Fife]

Love your subject! I am far from a pro but I would have opened the aperture a tad more to get the lizard in focus and structured the hard lines to the rule of 3rd's

 

[Chris_Fife]

I find myself going back and cropping my pics

 

[WesternGuy]

First impressions: In the first one you have cropped off the back half of his tail and his body is not in focus. Myself, I prefer to see the whole animal. For the second one, only his head is in focus - maybe that is what you intended - don't know. You need to smaller shutter opening - f11 or f16 maybe. Also, in both images you have placed the animal, or most of it, almost dead-centre. This placement does not usually yield a pleasing image. You might want to search the web for the "rule of thirds in photography". This is an established guideline for the placement of objects - head, eyes, etc. in an image. HTH.

WesternGuy

 

[shelby16]

Thank you guys for your opinions!! I will work on these things.