Showing posts with label goanna. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goanna. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

Autofocus accuracy on Fuji X-E1

Lace monitor
Goanna | Fuji X-E1 & XF18-55mm

Just an opportunistic snapshot of a fairly big goanna on the picnic ground in dry eucalypt forest, either in a State forest or Springbrook national park, along the road leading to the Natural Bridge national park. Goannas are frequent visitors to picnic ground where they can steal some food or just get some leftovers. The image was cropped and the JPEG quality was reduced in GIPM. The image is available at the original resolution on my flickr page. 

Tuesday, 10 April 2012

Goanna

Lace Monitor, Varanus varius | Fuji X10 | Brisbane Forest park, April 9, 2012 | flickr

Lace Monitor, or Goanna, is a biggest lizard around Brisbane. It is about half a meter long without tale. The picture was taken on Simpson falls picnic area. On this day we spotted three goannas in this area. The lizard on the top was not scared of people and passed just a couple meters away from the place we stayed. Kids were quite scared when they saw "the dragon" walked towards them :)

The picture was taken with Fuji X10, cropped on the top and bottom, and resized. I applied blur on background in order to reduce the image size. It didn't help much, so the image was saved at low quality. As usual, unedited 100% crop from the original JPEG is below. Tech: iso 100, F5.0, 1/600 sec.

100% crop from the original image