Follow the Leader
by roz

Comment by Dalina:
Lovely image! The best one in this challenge

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by Neat:
Just looking at those water drops again, they look like crystal clear marbles. Such beautiful perfection in your images.

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by MeMex2:
Really fabulous Roz. You must do a book or a show. You have some beauties!

Long Legged Fly with raindrops
by roz

Comment by glad2badad:
Have you named them yet? :-)

girl on a train
by roz

Comment by Lydia:

Originally posted by roz: Originally posted by oldbimmercoupe: Your oh so sad whining in Photog Comments very unbecoming. Do you ever think about those of us that would love ANY ribbon? I think you're confusing me with someone else Jim.. :(

+1

girl on a train
by roz

Comment by Lydia:
Oh golly!

This was yours, Roz!?!

I never suspected.

Well done!

September
by roz

Comment by Lydia:
The colors!

The light!
Wow, Roz!

September
by roz

Comment by kasaba:

Originally posted by roz: Originally posted by kasaba: Congratulations Roz - its all about the light ... Beautiful Pls,pls can you explain how you got the BG? I have some cicada exoskelletons on a tree and wanted to take "exactly" this shot, but don't seem to get it right ... Of course it would have been great to get the animal emerging the "old" body, but that happened during the night I guess. hey Gaby .. i'll answer you here in case anyone is interested .. for starters here is the original photo .. i'm not sure what you mean about the background .. but if you mean about the blur then its all about the aperture .. and how close you are to the insect and how close it is to the background .. if that makes sense .. i feel a bit weird telling you this as you are an amazing photographer ... and probably know what i'm telling you anyway .. if you wanted to know about the other stuff .. like the colours etc .. looking at my working tif file i can see that i did a sunlight action in Nik color efex .. to get the warmer colours i used an overlay that i can share with you if you want it .. i used the gradient tool in different colours to get the light top rhs .. and did a brightness and contrast adjustment layer to give it a boost ..

Thanks so much - BRILLIANT post work. Thank you for sharing the original. I thought you got that beautiful light "naturally" - never occurred to me you produced it in post. I need to look into the Nik filters more. I have them but only ever use Silver for BW conversions. Thanks again and congrats - beautifully done.

September
by roz

Comment by posthumous:
I was one of your 9s. I like how the moth is almost being erased by the sunlight.

September
by roz

Comment by roz:

Originally posted by kasaba: Congratulations Roz - its all about the light ... Beautiful Pls,pls can you explain how you got the BG? I have some cicada exoskelletons on a tree and wanted to take "exactly" this shot, but don't seem to get it right ... Of course it would have been great to get the animal emerging the "old" body, but that happened during the night I guess.

hey Gaby .. i'll answer you here in case anyone is interested ..
for starters here is the original photo ..

i'm not sure what you mean about the background .. but if you mean about the blur then its all about the aperture .. and how close you are to the insect and how close it is to the background .. if that makes sense ..
i feel a bit weird telling you this as you are an amazing photographer ... and probably know what i'm telling you anyway ..

if you wanted to know about the other stuff .. like the colours etc ..
looking at my working tif file i can see that i did a sunlight action in Nik color efex ..
to get the warmer colours i used an overlay that i can share with you if you want it ..
i used the gradient tool in different colours to get the light top rhs .. and did a brightness and contrast adjustment layer to give it a boost ..