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Portrait of a Jumper
Portrait of a Jumper
darnok


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Challenge: Free Study XVII (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: South Africa, Pretoria
Date: Aug 12, 2007
Aperture: 5.6 or 8
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Aug 12, 2007

 Taken with the reversed 50mm.

A very small jumping spider I found while washing the car. Shortly after I was heading outside with camera, tripod, flash, umbrella and light stand (another tripod). The image has not been rotated, the spider is on a vertical metal fence bar.

Lighting: A flash with umbrella camera right, shooting from slightly below.

Post processing: Converted RAW in ACR. Cropped (I don't usually crop but the spider was too small to be seen properly at 640px otherwise). Noise reduction. Resize, smart sharpen and save for web.

Statistics
Place: 136 out of 452
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Avg (commenters): 6.7143
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Views since voting: 875
Views during voting: 240
Votes: 164
Comments: 7
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/19/2007 05:22:05 PM
Clever title and a great capture to boot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/17/2007 09:32:14 PM
what a pretty spider
what lovely lashes
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/16/2007 01:12:17 PM
I like how this jumper almost seems to have long eyelashes. The picture does seem to be a bit over sharpened and blown out in areas. I think a little more cropping from the right, some noise reduction and enhancing the colors a bit could have added to this picture. As far as what I think are blown out spots, I could be wrong; those can't really be corrected using Photoshop. Those have to be corrected during shooting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/15/2007 11:53:06 PM
hee hee - looks like she has on false eyelashes. GREAT macro - DOF.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/14/2007 10:28:31 PM
I love these guys! I also realize how hard it is to capture the little suckers! Well done!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/14/2007 08:08:08 PM
What a cutie. lol psart 9
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/13/2007 12:12:02 AM
nice detail in the spider and whatever it is sitting on. i think this is just a tad oversharpened though but it gives it a cool alien feel. nice different angle...not sure if i like it because i automatically turned my head and now after staring at it for a minute my neck hurts :) but yeah cool macro!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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