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Cooter? on Santa Fe River near High Springs FL. One of the few times I've used the spot meter on the N70.



-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), July 01, 1999

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Larry, it's beautiful! This one certainly illustrates the virtue of simplicty in photography. Thanks for the precious momment of tranquility! Donna

-- Donna Bollenbach (cassidy@icubed.net), July 01, 1999.

Very well done indeed. The black space seems to perfectly complete this elegant and simle composition. Excellent!

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), July 01, 1999.

Absolutely beautiful, Larry! Another great one for you! Congrats...

-- Joe Cheatwood (cheatwoo@ufl.edu), July 02, 1999.

I had an request on how this was done. The background was very dark (tannic stained water and shaded understory). The turtle shell was pretty light from sun reflection. I spot metered off the shell and this exposure blacked out the background. There was one small branch in the foreground that I couldn't get out of the frame so I "burned" it out. This was shot from a canoe (sigma 400 @ 5.6) but the tripod was sunk into the river all the way to the top with just the shaft sticking out. This is a bit risky as N70's don't swim well. I picked a location where I knew there were turtles and waited for them to climb out.

-- Larry Korhnak (lvk@gnv.ifas.ufl.edu), July 02, 1999.

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