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Good shot, but needs color. As is looks very flat. Maybe contrast, maybe some saturation, maybe some polarizer effect with PS...

Officially, I don't know but that's what my wife calls it.

The focal point of the picture--the kiss itself--is too dark. There's

not much in the original to bring any detail out. Any suggestions

about exposure for this kind of shot? The flash was blasting at the

scene from mere inches away...

 

Any other comments? Please contribute.

I am sure this happens to everyone -- my son came home from daycare

and was WIRED!!! The hair was soaked in sweat and sunscreen he was

all red and pumped. Could not hold still for a split second and did

not even fit in the frame. This is an uncropped photo in my kitchen.

Any suggestions for improvement appreciated. Thanks.

This one looks pretty evil. Similar to the one I found on my ceiling. Take a look in my Spiders folder. How did you identify the species? Mine has very similar front, but the belly looks different.

 

Good shot!

Are you sure this is not mom and son? :-) Great work!

Gorgeous at first sight. Upon closer scrutiny, however, it is apparent that your plane of focus is a bit off as the left section is out of focus. If you moved the camera just a notch to the left, both stems would have been perfectly in focus. That being said, this is still a very nice shot! Maybe you can also crop a bit more from the left--the empty space does not add anything substantially or aesthetically.

Very nice shot, but the flash makes it look like it's a shot of a moth. You don't specify the exposure ... I wonder if it was possible to make it longer and get a more even light on the subject and the background. If you can work your flash off the camera body, moving it back away from the subject will also even out the differences in light levels (at the cost of harsher shadows, though). Shots like these rarely permit time for careful setup, though. Nice shot!

Original. Beautiful color and lighting. In short, very nicely done.

HANS: the whitishe background is the ceiling of my kitchen. The spider was hanging on its own web about 6 in. from it. This is a house spider and I did not make any efforts to change the background from what it was when the picture was taken.

Very nice, but it lacks a sense of stability. I think it's the fact that the horizon is not horizontal and I get the feeling that the whole image is about to slide off the frame to the right. I realize the scene may have in fact been on an angle, but for the sense of serenity that this picture certainly has, I'd recommend straightening it.

Nasty ... in a good way! I LOVE the 'eyes.'

Looks like this is a montage. If it is: well done! If it is not: great catch!

Another sceny on the ceiling of my kitchen. Eating them is

appropriate... I would appreciate any and all constructive comments.

Does anyone think that the shadow is interesting at all? Some time has passed since I posted this picture and now I think that the shadow may add to the menacing image of the killer subject. What do you think?

Nice idea, but you should straighten out the picture and make sure that the brightest spot on the plane corresponds to the part of the picture you want to emphasize. Right now it emphasizes empty space above, what I consider to be, the main subject.

I like it better. The colors are more saturated and it has richer texture. There's a problem with the Moon illusion, however. Your foreground is much brighter than the background which clearly indicates that the "Moon" is not the source of the light. In the previous version when everything was much more diffusely lit, it looked like an overexposed Moonscape. Now the "Moon" fades to the background, see what I am saying? I would tone down the highlights in the front and try to add more light to the "Moon" and the background. Try playing with masking and Shadows/Highlights of the PS if you have it.

 

Good luck!

Yes this is a common theme, but this most of the others have action in vertical dimension. This is highly original capture and very well executed. My only gripe is that I wish that the biggest drop was sharper. Beautiful!

Great image! However, even in this small size grain noise is distracting--you should play with Nikon's noise controls, run the new Photoshop CS2 or use any of the other available cheap noise filters on it. Is this a 100% crop of the original? What speed did you use? I wonder becasue D70 does not usually make that much noise.

Thanks for your comments. Russell, only top and bottom portions of the shot were cropped--it is full-frame in the horizontal dimension. I was focusing on the face and when legs are incorporated, the face gets smaller. I have a few shots taken in the landscape orientation and that way I could not get the face--the wall was too close. The critter was backing off and kept on hiding itself with the left front leg.

Agree with Nick, the berries are washed out. Otherwise, cool concept and nice execution!

Is that really the moon in the background? I don't think so, but the illusion is very nice. Very good image, but for a moondance I'd make it much darker overall.

Very nice! I would add some more saturation to the background color, though. It looks a bit washed out...

I like bugs but this one freaked me out once I saw it enlarged. The

juices on the forepaws, humongous fangs... The spider itself is

only as large as a thumbnail.

I think this species is cute! Well done photo! Maybe just a tiny bit too bright on the hair under its eyes.