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aliqui


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Challenge: Free Study 2010-02 (Advanced Editing VII)
Camera: Nikon D300s
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D
Location: The yard
Date: Feb 28, 2010
Aperture: 5.6 to 11
ISO: 500
Shutter: 1/125sec
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 28, 2010

 The sun came out and the little critters are starting to come out of their holes. This is the first decent shot with my reversing ring. I can't remember the exact aperture, but it was between 5.6 and 11. He was sitting on a silver ladder in the bright sun, so everything around him pretty much blew out on its own. I figured the original was a loss, but kept it anyway.

Lightroom
Crop and rotate
Urban Style preset (this also added the vignette)
Reduced exposure

Photoshop
Cleaned up a weird halo coming out of Lightroom with clone tool
Dodged under him to brighten up the middle
Sharpened some bits with the sharpening tool
Adjusted saturation
Adjusted levels a little
Gradient tool from lower right to balance the top vignette
Masked out his head and the tips of his legs
Topaz Denoise on everything else
Touched up some sharpening of his little crown spikes and his mouth

Statistics
Place: 88 out of 379
Avg (all users): 6.0534
Avg (commenters): 6.7500
Avg (participants): 6.0891
Avg (non-participants): 5.9333
Views since voting: 1046
Views during voting: 252
Votes: 131
Comments: 7
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AuthorThread
 07/24/2014 02:21:16 PM
So scary! I love the small amounts of green.
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 03/08/2010 02:33:29 PM
GREETINGS FROM THE CRITIQUE CLUB

When I first saw this in competition, I exclaimed, "Ohhhhhh!" and gave you a high vote.

When I was lucky enough to get this in the critique queue, it got another "Ohhhhhhh!" and here I am, relatively speechless. About all I can do is sit here and admire this little beastie and appreciate what a good job you did in bringing out the critter details. I am especially glad that you catalogued your steps so others can learn from your example.

So, with that, I guess it's time to go on to the next person in line after saying "Thanks" for this fine image. It's a keeper.

Alice
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/08/2010 02:18:34 AM
He's actually kinda cute. Really nice work with this!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/05/2010 02:50:04 PM
ohhhhh, I soooooo hate spiders...but I will say (unfortunately) that it's a super clear shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/04/2010 12:16:37 AM
These spiders are soooo cool. He looks a little frosty, perhaps?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 03/02/2010 02:12:45 PM
Excellent job on the processing.
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 03/01/2010 09:46:16 PM
Cool macro!
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