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I haven't done many shots like this, and I would appreciated

thoughts on it from a technical viewpoint. The limpets are stuck on

the side of a sea wall. I used fairly wide aperture to obtain small

DOF. The only post processing has been a crop and slight adjustment

to curves in Canon DPP to tweak the contrast at low, mid and high

range (following the techinique described by Keith Hensen at

www.northscape.co.uk). Before this the image looked slightly flat.

Any comments at all would be much appreciated.

Ahmed and Rachel - many thanks for your comments. Creatures like these are one of the reasons I will never move away from the sea :)

Thanks again.

Pete

I have never lived by the sea but whenever I get a chance I head towards the sea and spend hours mucking about in tidal pools. Just got my diving certificate in the mail today and am heading off to Honduras for a dive vacation in Feb.

I like the narrow DoF and how it isolates these limpits and that bit of seaweed from the remainder of the scene. I know these cute little guys are stuck to a wall but if I turn this image in my mind 90 deg. CW it somehow seems more natural and I then start to see this as an abstract landscape. No matter how you flip it this is a nicely composed and captivating image.

Gordon and Rachel - I apologise for my tardy response and thank you both for commenting on this picture. There's so much to see down at the beach ;) I did try rotating as Gordon suggested and it does create a different image -almost like the limpets are skating across the ice! But the seaweed didn't look right - it really feels to me like it should be dangling. Hmmm, I like both..

This photo, by the way, was one of my first taken with the EF-S 18-55 lens that I had to hack to fit the EOS 10D. I was pretty pleased concidering it was such a cheapy!