This, I believe, is a green mamba. The focus on nature or animal photography (and probably people too), should be on the eyes. For these snake shots that wasn't too much of a problem, as they are fairly slow moving...if moving at all. However, to increase or enhance the appearance of good, solid eye focus, further steps were taken: 1) select just the eye(s); 2) feather the selection by 4 or 5 pixels; then 3) then use the unsharp mask tool, 4 px at 50%. Even if it's already pretty good, this makes the eye appear to be in even sharper focus.Also, for this shot a broken stick in the background was cloned out as well as some color and level correction...
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Nikon D300s, AF-S DX Nikkor 18-200 mm F/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
ISO-800, f/5.6, 1/60 sec
Photo taken 03/20/11 by Jim Mahood
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