Chris:

in general your shots are good - a little post processing would make some of them very good. All are technically sound, sharpness and focus is something that it seems many kingsnake.com photographers are lax about. I think a little levels/curves/saturation adjustment and a touch of sharpening would improve ALL of them, I have not seen too many digital images that would not benefit from judicious use of those four adjustments.

Aside from that, a couple are underexposed, but can be corrected with levels and curves. The poor red-eyed treefrog has lost his fingertip, which is a shame, and it might be more interesting if it was placed in the frame diagonally. The ilex is a great capture, but the big green leaf is distracting..either a clone tool or the blur function can fix that. Good job controlling the background, the DoF is great in most of the images - I want to see a little more of that ilex though!!!

Hope this is what you wanted, I don't mean to rip them to shreds - they are certainly a head and shoulder above most of the photographs here on KS (lets open a sweaterbox rack and shoot straight down!)
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Erik Williams

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