basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by roz:

Originally posted by kasaba: Beautiful Roz, Congratulations. I have not been on DPC for a while (I always get fed up when I enter challenges and one after the other just bomb :-)). I think the red matches perfectly - it goes with the subject :-). Love the BG, was that more or less how it came out of camera?

thanks Gaby .. and yes it can be disheartening to enter challenges and they bomb out .. you most definitely didnt this day .. !! .. your Bee Eater is stunning and such beautiful colours ..

not out of the camera .. !! .. but that is quite a compliment .. as these days i like to create something that is different from the reality but maintains a real feel .. if you get the idea ..
but i've just uploaded the seven photos i used in this image plus my editing steps to the sc .. the grasshopper focus stacked to get all of him in focus .. uncropped .. then added several photos that i'd taken of bokeh .. and then the spider's web .. :)

basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by kasaba:
Beautiful Roz, Congratulations. I have not been on DPC for a while (I always get fed up when I enter challenges and one after the other just bomb :-)). I think the red matches perfectly - it goes with the subject :-). Love the BG, was that more or less how it came out of camera?

taming
by roz

Comment by jomari:
Great photo - and anagram. My pick for the red.

basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by jomari:
Beautiful! 10

basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by Neat:
Great sharpness, another good one from the master I̢۪m assuming. Already voted.

taming
by roz

Comment by pgirish007:
I see you went macro in here that wide aperture lost some of the details in the image like the body of the lower lost the details.

stepping lightly
by roz

Comment by spencelg:
Wow, fantastic!

basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by spencelg:
My pick for yellow in this challenge.

basking in the morning light
by roz

Comment by MaryO:
Perfect DOF and detail.

stepping lightly
by roz

Comment by willem:
Very nice but in my view more like film-noir than chiaroscuro (although there is a connection between the two). Here the strong contrast is used the make the spider jump out from the background and to show its outline, which works well, but chiaroscuro is more about using the light to emphasise the shape of the object itself, for example roundness. (Impossible in macro)