Photograph Information |
Photographer's Comments |
Challenge: Centered Composition (Advanced Editing II) Camera: Canon PowerShot A70 Location: home sweet home Date: May 15, 2004 Aperture: F/2.8 ISO: 100 Shutter: 1/125 sec. Galleries: Animals, Macro Date Uploaded: May 15, 2004
|
Another day, Another challenge.. :)
I saw this poor bee in my balcony, can't fly, struggling to move.
So I took a black piece of paper and put the bee on it, then put a 80W table lamp, pointed on it (it was almost night time), took some macro shots and chose this photo for the challenge.
Post-Processing: NeatImage, Cropping, Saturation of Yellows to -95 (to remove the table lamp effect and add more contrast for the bee), played with brightness & contrast a little, Unsharp Mask.
Then I wasn't totally satisfied with results so I did a little more desaturation of yllows.
then I gave this to heida to have a look and she adjusted it so it'll look better, THANKS heida :-)
Sorry for submitting bees, site is already full of those as I have noticed.
Also, I freed the bee afterwards, hope it'll live another day. |
Author | Thread |
Comments Made During the Challenge  |
|
05/22/2004 05:16:11 AM |
I hate to break it to you, but I don't think it's sleeping........... |
|
|
05/21/2004 05:18:06 PM |
Of all the cliche insect images in this challenge, yours stands out as brilliant and original. Well done! |
|
Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
05/21/2004 03:11:31 PM |
I think it's dead. Nice photo though. |
|
|
05/21/2004 12:02:24 AM |
I would have liked to have seen more details here. |
|
|
05/18/2004 01:22:12 PM |
Well it's centered. A lot of unused space. |
|
|
05/17/2004 10:47:32 PM |
Shadows were a bit dark for me but nice idea. |
|
|
05/17/2004 10:19:41 PM |
|
|
05/17/2004 12:13:03 PM |
The looooooong long sleep. :) |
|
|
05/17/2004 09:18:13 AM |
There isn't really enough in this image to get me excited... Maybe closer-up so the bee filled more of the frame. I think the background works nicely; It's interesting, but not overpowering. |
|
Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
05/17/2004 07:32:59 AM |
it's not sleeping, is it? :)
that's what you call dead centre! Even the surrounding is working with you, cause it is curling around the bee..The DOF is just a little too small...I would have liked to see the bee more in focus, and maybe a bit (teeny) more light on it..but the sharpness is great! |
|
Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
05/17/2004 04:56:41 AM |
Though color is good, the dark shadow makes it hard to make out detail in your too small subject. |
|
Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
05/17/2004 12:14:15 AM |
Very nice, I think the light could have been just a tad better so that we could get more detail of the bee. |
|
Photographer found comment helpful. |
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 03/15/2025 07:38:05 PM EDT.