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Honey Wings
Honey Wings
TallPaul


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Challenge: Textures VI (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D70
Lens: Tamron AF 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di II for Nikon
Date: Apr 5, 2009
Aperture: f5.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2sec
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Apr 6, 2009

 I like trying new techniques for challenges and this seemed like a good idea to try the extreme macro approach I had seen in a tutorial on the site.

I used my Tamron telephoto and then selotaped an old Minolata lense to the front having initally tried and failed with an old broken Nikon 35-80mm I have. It took a lot of experimenting and trial and error to get it right.

The miniscule DOF is the biggest hurdle and anything not a a vertical plane of about 1mm will drop out of focus. The appature of the front lense has to be jammed open at maximum to get an image of any size so there is very little that an be done about it.

I love the image I have chosen and after input from some members that helped me to decide (thanks Karen, Wendy and especially Trish). I love the colours, the composition the light, the OOF element and of course the texture.

As for score well I have no idea. It could end up at 4.5 or a new PB over 6.00. Who knows and I sure have given up trying to pre-guess the outcome of my pics so I'm gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.

Statistics
Place: 121 out of 334
Avg (all users): 5.5000
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.4066
Avg (non-participants): 5.5914
Views since voting: 671
Views during voting: 291
Votes: 184
Comments: 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/12/2009 04:59:22 PM
I'll have to take your word for the 'Wings'. It may have been on purpose but I think it looks a tad bit soft. As is: 9
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 04/10/2009 03:56:34 PM
The white is just a tad overdone and the image has an appearance of being oversharpened. A good demonstration of texture and it's use as a subject for this challenge. A good solid effort.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/10/2009 11:06:27 AM
this is cool, pretty abstract. i really like how it fades from black to amber to peachy
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/10/2009 12:30:22 AM
The bright spot on the top right takes away from the beautiful glow, contrast, colors and texture on the bottom left.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/09/2009 10:22:59 AM
I have no idea what I am looking at...it has hair follicles(I think) but your focus is lacking sorry
 04/08/2009 09:26:23 PM
abstracts come here to die. nice job on this one. blown out on right side hurts it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2009 08:24:24 AM
This is so gorgeous, the light passing through is quite sublime, and the wings look like bubbles of thin toffee. Quite extraordinary.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/08/2009 04:35:14 AM
Great color balance and control of that white.
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