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Challenge: Free Study XI (Advanced Editing IV*)
Camera: Canon EOS-10D
Lens: Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
Location: Nisku Prairie
Date: Apr 29, 2006
Aperture: 4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/320
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2006

Ant moving around inside a wild crocus on a windy, cloudy morning.

Additional equipment and information:

shot @ 32mm
2 extension tubes - 12mm and 25mm

Cropped only from the bottom.

What I See:

There is one thing I notice in the image, which to me, balances the ant with the rest of the image. It is the green lines coming from under the part of the flower where the ant is and the petal the ant is on. They remind me of insect legs and insect body due to shape and positioning. It's like the ant is riding on it's back.

Statistics
Place: 165 out of 211
Avg (all users): 5.0904
Avg (commenters): 6.2000
Avg (participants): 5.0000
Avg (non-participants): 5.2073
Views since voting: 944
Views during voting: 272
Votes: 188
Comments: 14
Favorites: 1 (view)


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10/09/2008 12:01:38 AM
LOL, I was ready to favorite it again :)
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05/08/2006 09:27:30 PM
I thought this was not bad. I gave it a 5. The problem I see is that it wants to be an abstract, but it isn't quite abstract enough. On the other hand, it wants to be a nature shot, but it's too abstract.

I wished you could have waited a split second so we could have had more of the ant visible. Other than that, the composition is nice. Both subjects are off center and balance each other. The colors are nice as well.
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05/08/2006 01:05:53 PM
I think that this one suffered from the focus not being crystal clear. While we can make out the head of the ant inside the flower, everything looks blurred to me. These types of shots don't typically do well on this site. Also, bringing the ants position to the left would have helped out your composition some by bring the the center of the flower more into the frame. Great eye to see such a scene, just not the best of all execution. Notice with your high scoring photographs that your focus is crisp and they have a great contrast of colors.
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05/08/2006 10:41:18 AM
Beautiful Colette. Sorry about the score, it's kind of typical DPC voting!

I wonder if this is a crop? I'd like to see a little more on the right.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2006 09:54:06 PM
much more energy than you usually find in a macro shot.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/07/2006 08:02:14 AM
wonderful...love the softness and colours and the focus on the ant
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/05/2006 06:16:50 PM
I liek the impressionistic feel in this photo. The shallow depth adds mistery.
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05/05/2006 11:08:35 AM
Well done.
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05/04/2006 02:30:59 AM
I wish there was a tiny bit more focus in this photograph. Otherwise - wonderful colours, good compostition.
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05/03/2006 06:11:22 PM
Interesting poto of a flower and a fly. Like the motion and blurring.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/03/2006 03:18:47 PM
Like the odd look to this...everything blurred but insect...nice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/03/2006 10:34:57 AM
Beautiful softness in the flower, would like more detail in the bug
  Photographer found comment helpful.
05/02/2006 03:16:01 PM
Too much of this is out of focus. Even the subject looks blurred.
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05/01/2006 05:25:31 AM
a good capture, it's a shame it's slightly out of focus on the ant
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