Eye of the Gator

Orlando Wetlands Park

D300
AF-S 80-200mm f/2.8
1/1000 @ f/7.1 ISO 400

wow! Great shot! I don't see anything wrong with this at all!

Cool shot.

I agree, cool shot.

Very unique! If you slightly lightened the eye, would you see more reflection? Just a thought.

Definitely a good click but i feel a bit more black effect could have made the image much better.

Joohn said:

Definitely a good click but i feel a bit more black effect could have made the image much better.

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Do you mean darken the image or add vignette?

I actually did mean to work on the Level Correction

May be

Shadow = 13
Midtone = 0.89 and
Highlight = 245

Above details as per Photoshop

My be below image will make it clear

Yes, the "After" shot is definitely better. Adds more detail and texture to the overall shot, thereby making it more interesting to look at.

Thank you everyone for your feedback and suggestions.

Joohn said:

I actually did mean to work on the Level Correction

May be

Shadow = 13
Midtone = 0.89 and
Highlight = 245

Above details as per Photoshop

My be below image will make it clear

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This is a case where the conversion to JPEG, and the associated color space for web use caused quite a bit to be "lost in translation"; The original NEF file, recorded in Adobe 98 color space, has the saturation levels similar to your "After" manipulation. I did notice the loss in the JPEG, I just did not make the effort to correct the JPEG so that it more closely resembled the original NEF file.

Eduard said:

Very unique! If you slightly lightened the eye, would you see more reflection? Just a thought.

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I agree, if the eye was just a tad bit lighter, it would be better. I did not perform any manipulation on the image, other than cropping, and converting it to JPEG for web publication.

Like the original image, but love the post processing.