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Challenge: Free Study IX (Advanced Editing IV)
Camera: Nikon Coolpix 5400
Location: A cow pasture in the middle of nowhere :)
Date: Nov 11, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/815s
Galleries: Animals, Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 30, 2005

 I picked this little guy up and set him on my UV filter. The hardest part of taking this was getting my hand out of the way and taking the picture before he crawled off and dug his creepy little arm-spikes into my hand. :)

I was shooting this blind. If I had it to do over again, I'd stop down a bit to try and get his face in focus as well as his legs, but ah well.

Cloned out a couple of distracting spots and resized.

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Views since voting: 911
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Votes: 280
Comments: 22
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12/07/2005 10:31:55 PM
Cool that's a neat idea. I am assuming he/she is walking on your camera lense. Maybe he's on a glass table top. Great idea. With a focused head it would be perfect. Nice capture.
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 12/07/2005 10:10:50 PM
OOF
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 12/06/2005 10:09:55 AM
Interesting perspective. Would like to see the focus more on the head than on the lower body.
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 12/06/2005 09:14:08 AM
nice shot. Wish his/her head was in focus though! good luck! (5)
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 12/05/2005 11:04:20 PM
Macros have to be in very sharp focus.
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 12/05/2005 08:50:33 PM
Good capture, but his face is so out of focus.
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 12/05/2005 04:56:21 PM
I think the head should be more in focus.
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 12/05/2005 11:12:33 AM
focus focus!!!
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 12/04/2005 12:30:56 PM
Good luck on this macro study. The head needs to be sharper though.
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 12/02/2005 07:40:52 PM
Cool picture, but the focus needs to be on the eyes, not the torso.
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 12/02/2005 06:43:54 PM
If only his head were in focus!!
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 12/02/2005 03:34:36 PM
I'm afraid too much of the most intriguing portion -- his head -- is off focus.
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 12/02/2005 03:06:57 AM
Unusual image of a Mantis the focus seems to be on its abdomen
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 12/02/2005 12:06:54 AM
Interesting view on this one but unfortunately, the focus point seems to be off quite a bit.
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 12/01/2005 05:28:29 PM
Would have been fantastic if it's head was in focus. I know how difficult is to shoot insects so I appreciate your effort. Good colors and angle.
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 12/01/2005 05:15:59 PM
5 - Good perspective. Criticism; depending of course what you had to work with, the feet (especially front four) all showing/not 'cut', and trying to get the head in just a little more focus (wouldn't even have to be sharp to make this still a good shot in my opinion) would have made this better. Given 'advanced editing', those 2 or 3 'spots' upper right and middle bottom, could/should have been cloned out. Difficult with contrast issues (and maybe cropping out more of the dark 'end body', who knows), but the green a little more vivid too, would also have made this even better in my opinion. edit:typos

Message edited by author 2005-12-08 17:15:37.
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 12/01/2005 01:59:47 PM
This would have been great if more DOF or focused on the head. Nice shot anyway with the blue background.
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 12/01/2005 12:42:09 PM
I think having the head in focus would have been better.
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 12/01/2005 10:29:25 AM
the focus is unfortunately on the mantis' behind rather than it's head.
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 12/01/2005 07:56:09 AM
i would have prefered to see the head in focus rather then the body... 5
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 12/01/2005 05:04:13 AM
Oddly framed and focused.
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 12/01/2005 01:38:22 AM
what a perspective!!! More DOF, please.
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