Mud, Glorious Mud
by sulamk

Comment by KING:
[World Record Attempt]
+ Texture are here.
- Mud isn't a very appealing subject to look at for too long.

Mud, Glorious Mud
by sulamk

Comment by jpochard:
Love the tread line in this shot. Nice muddy shot. Focus is very good and the texture is presented well.

Mud, Glorious Mud
by sulamk

Comment by andywightman:
Very well taken. Good lighting and effective texture enhanced by the bits of vegetation.

Mud, Glorious Mud
by sulamk

Comment by relgraphics:
Good, meets the challenge very well.

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by Dave Gordon:
Nice lighting and composition. The crab really comes to life.

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by tfaust:
This seems a little overexposed. You've lost some detail in the rock and crab

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by GinaRothfels:
This angle looks very unnatural. I think it would look better rotated 90¢ª to the right.

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by wewillexplore:
Overexposed in some regions, underexposed in others.

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by nephrotic:
This is going to sound very hard and critical but I hope that you will see my point.
First I recognise this was a hard shot to take - small dark subject - bright background - very harsh sunlight - heavy shadows - angular background - rounded subject and a subject that was either moving or likely to shoot off at any time....Everything was working against you and it would have need a lot of thought to pull it off. What you have ended up with is just a picture of a crab.
If you are on holiday and that is all you wanted then it is fine and pictures like this are great memories but for a competition like this you needed to take some risks.
Some of this will depend how much control you have on your camera - so you may not be able to some of these things. Location may prevent others.
1: Change of viewpoint - get where the crab is facing you - and as close as you can or if thats not possible just shoot half a dozen blind shots - where you have to guess whats in the viewfinder/screen but it looks about right.
2: get down and to the side - with a crabs sideways movement it would appear he was coming towards you and be menacing.
3: Go for the silhouette there may be enough crab out of the shadow for this to have worked.
4: try and get some extra light into the shadow. Almost anything light would have reflected some of that very bright sun into the heavy shadow and lifted the crab out of the blackness.
I always have half a dozen white tissues in my pocket. They can often be used as reflectors if either someone is with you or over the flash to diffuse light when a straight flash would be too hard.
David

Cancer
by sulamk

Comment by faidoi:
A bit too much exposure. Maybe changing to a B&W would bring out the surface of the rock a bit more. You can see some of the textures you were able to get on the bottom of the shot. Composition is interesting.