Tiny spiderby
rameviComment by zagman: Greetings from the Critique Club. Thank you for entering the DPChallenge, Minimalism.
A green spider in the flower, is a good capture. The tiny spider is almost hiding from view. You can see some of its features, slowly crawling into its own world. Probably looking for food or shelter.
Good details on the spider. Its a bit hidden though, some of its body is out of view. It would have been better to see the front body parts, especially more of its eyes.
Technically the focal point is the green spider. However, the flower that surrounds him is out of focus. A better depth of field shot would have been less distracting to the viewers. I am not sure what type of lens you used, but sometimes on "macro" and closeups, the camera acts funny. It does not know what to do. It looks like this shot is very close, probably less than 8 inches.
Another factor to consider is your aperture settings. I see that its on F/5. A photo attempt like this one would be better with small aperture. The smallest as possible on your lens. Most of todays lens go down to 1.8 and average about 3.5- 4.0. At F/5.0 your depth of field will not be good.
The smaller the aperture the (larger f/number), the wider the depth of field (range of acceptable focus). The larger aperture (smaller f/number the narrower the depth of field.
Overall a great capture of Mr. Spider. It certainly met the criteria for a minimalism shot. It would have been better image if you had gotten the eyes in the frame. I can see one eye open, and the other would have made this photo more appealing.
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