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Silent Invader
Silent Invader
thelsel


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: In the Garden (Classic Editing)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: Oceanside, CA
Date: Jul 27, 2003
Aperture: F/11
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/140
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 29, 2003

I went down to the garden to take some pictures and found these little guys all over the place. I had no idea they were eating all my plants! Anyhow, I shot this little guy on a citrus leaf against the blue sky. I sprayed the leaf with a squirt bottle just to make it a little more interesting. I then increased saturation and adjusted the greens and blues hues to darken the sky and make the leaf look more vibrant.

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 350
Avg (all users): 6.8128
Avg (commenters): 8.2800
Avg (participants): 6.6828
Avg (non-participants): 7.0222
Views since voting: 2086
Votes: 235
Comments: 34
Favorites: 6 (view)


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09/15/2003 12:51:35 PM
Excellent colors and sharpness. Fun shot!
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08/18/2003 02:36:56 AM
Two 1s? Name and shame I say! - and the 2s and 3s? Just plain bad taste I suppose! ;)
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08/06/2003 12:26:31 AM
Hmmmm. Maybe I shouldn't have given you the URL for this site... ;-)

Nice job - congratulations. Great finish for your first entry.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/05/2003 11:42:55 PM
Beautiful! Love the rich, saturated colors and the nice use of negative space to accentuate the caterpillar. --10
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08/05/2003 11:14:11 PM
Nice sharp colors and contrast. Great capture.
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08/05/2003 10:56:31 AM
Really nice color!
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08/04/2003 09:22:52 PM
Great shot with beautiful contrasts and details. You´rs the best IMO. I rated this a 9.
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08/04/2003 09:59:54 AM
How do you people find such great subjects? It's super! 10
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08/03/2003 09:02:37 AM
Lovely contrasts of colour
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08/03/2003 06:13:50 AM
wery nice! 9
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08/03/2003 05:42:59 AM
Next time with such a good shot do put it thru Neat Image to remove the noise. The Blue part is too noisy
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08/03/2003 04:07:45 AM
Nice shot but I would have cropped some of the blue sky out as it is too blue and empty
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08/02/2003 06:26:22 PM
Top 3 for sure-- great shot!
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08/02/2003 10:17:36 AM
great colour contrasts. the water drops look great too, 10
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08/01/2003 09:24:57 PM
Stunning-- one the best I see so far--
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08/01/2003 03:52:12 PM
Wow, what contrasting colors.. I assume the blue is not sky, unless you are in Montana... Great shot
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08/01/2003 12:27:31 PM
I like this shot, very simple, yet very interesting. Very good details and color..
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08/01/2003 10:09:39 AM
the contrast in the colours works well for this shot.
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07/31/2003 01:55:03 PM
And we have a winner. This shot has it all. Super composition. Great color. Sharp focus. A 10.
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07/31/2003 12:17:43 PM
nice colors, but a flip horizontal would help, I did try it and it looks better. good work
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07/31/2003 10:30:39 AM
Very simple composition that works well, beautiful colours. The background seems a little noisy/ pixellated... does it need NeatImage, or was it caused by NeatImage? Not quite sure about the lighting on the caterpillar... having looked at the other entries, it would seem these are tricky things to light! It's the shadow here that detracts for me... perhaps some way of diffusing the light on the subject would have been helpful. The water drops are a nice touch 8
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07/31/2003 08:10:20 AM
Perfect macro. Everything works together here - 10.
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07/31/2003 01:11:31 AM
great colours. effective lines. cute bug 9
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07/31/2003 12:43:51 AM
I *love* the colors. Wow.
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07/30/2003 10:51:54 PM
Amazing, terrific color.
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07/30/2003 09:30:57 PM
fantastic colours - a chomp out of the leaf would have matched the title more - but it's a 10 for me anyway.
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07/30/2003 08:42:45 PM
nice! i love the graphic feel and colors. very clean and simple.
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07/30/2003 06:04:53 PM
I saw one too many bugs in this contest. But this is by far the best. The color of the sky against the green leaf, the water drops, and the little buggy are all excellent.
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07/30/2003 04:51:03 PM
Whow - highly impressive! Your composition (and the choice of colors) works simply great here. Good luck for the challenge!
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07/30/2003 04:11:54 PM
Nice primary colors
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07/30/2003 12:29:37 PM
Excellent primary colours (though the blue seems a little too rich) and good composition. Reminiscent of Jacko's "Round and Round" entry. I like this a lot.
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07/30/2003 08:44:15 AM
brilliant eyecatching color composition :)
beautiful macro shot.
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07/30/2003 02:02:18 AM
Been busy with the spray mist! Nice colours and good DOF. I'd like to see the caterpillar closer though and it would have made the shapes more dynamic as more of the green spanned the width of the shot. [7]
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