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Challenge: Free Study 2008-08 (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ10
Location: garden
Date: Aug 15, 2008
Aperture: f3.7
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/100
Galleries: Abstract, Nature
Date Uploaded: Aug 31, 2008

 Crop, fiddles in Irf, convert to sepia, add frame....

No idea. (Maybe no best in my August. It was this or a very nice little dog or a reflection of me and mine and all the junk in our living room on the blank tv screen).

So it's a sort of spider on the done stalk and leaves of an opium poppy. The sepia brought out the veins in the leaves, but the colour version was full of nice pastels.

POST: Really didn't know what to expect, especially since I wasn't entirely sure I'd done my best with it - at certain times of day the sepia does look a little bit much. So I am pleased with positive comments and votes 5 and above. This is a friendly place.

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Votes: 147
Comments: 6
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 09/08/2008 09:20:26 AM
Gorgeous. This is one of my "silent sevens"
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09/07/2008 11:49:08 AM
What great textures here! I like it that the main thing that's really really dark is the spider. Well done.

Message edited by author 2008-09-08 08:24:53.
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 09/05/2008 04:49:24 AM
I'm sure when you made the whole scene sepia-toned you were trying to minimise the distraction caused by all those leaves in the foreground, and get the shape of the spider to stand out more. Unfortunately, the subject still isn't strong enough for me: maybe a tighter crop?
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 09/04/2008 07:19:23 PM
for me its a little too much sepia going on.
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 09/02/2008 08:36:44 PM
Lovely tones, I wish the bug was larger so i could see it's detail better
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 09/01/2008 11:24:00 AM
I don't really like the processing on this one as it doesn't provide much in the way of contrast. Also, the crop could be tighter on the spider. There are some really great textures on that leaf, and I think that a lower angle could have made better use of them as a backdrop for the spider.
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