in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by candycorn:
This is a very nice shot but I am not sure how it fits the challenge.

in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by thunderbug:
haha so you read the articles too, huh?

in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by unknowndeath:
You would take someof the yellow out of the image. Iwould work with selective colors and unsaturated your yellow just a bit.

in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by caba:
One of the better macro's I've seen in a while, nice DOF, 10

in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by ElGiri:
great photo - not relevant

in the habit of showing up every 17 years, brood X cicadas
by coolhar

Comment by menardmam:
very sharp

bad boy gets a time out
by coolhar

Comment by coolhar:
Thanks to all who commented. I really don't like B&W pics, but, in the spirit of Something New, I thought I'd have a go at it. This was shot in B&W, not converted from color. The separation between the boy and the background leaves came with curves adjustment, and was needed because he was blended in way too much. It was a very bright sunny day so maybe the original was just too over exposed to salvage. I thought the emotion of the situation, with the help of the title, would carry the image's weaknesses. Guess it was just one of those cases of "You had to be there to get it". Don't think I'll be entering any more B&W's for a while, LOL.

bad boy gets a time out
by coolhar

Comment by banmorn:
when I first saw this I thought the lad had been imported....on second viewing it appears that he is not but it looks like you over dodged his head it as the detail and tone look out of place.

bad boy gets a time out
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Comment by Beagleboy:
Nice composition. The only thing bugging me about this shot is that the kid looks washed out, almost like he's faded out or almost transparent. An articfact of the technique you used to go from RGB to B&W?

bad boy gets a time out
by coolhar

Comment by TooCool:
Curious about how you converted this to B/W. The boy looks like a cardboard cut out or like he was added in. There are many ways of converting to B/W where you have great control over the total effect. You do have great contrasts here which lead to a nice B/W shot. I would love to see the original and play around with the conversion to see if it would pop more!
TC