3 captures combined using HDR Efex Pro, including spot adjustments to brightness/contrast
resulting image adjusted using Capture NX2
-multiple contrast adjustments
-unsharp mask
-clean up noise around edges
-spot edits to shadow/silhouette
-crop
-export as TIFF
adjustments using Color Efex Pro
-add some color to background
-apply gradient filter
final size and save using Capture NX2
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Place: 15 out of 120 Avg (all users): 6.5580 Avg (commenters): 7.7500 Avg (participants): 6.5208 Avg (non-participants): 6.5778 Views since voting: 1009 Views during voting: 263 Votes: 138 Comments: 10 Favorites: 0
One of my favourites during voting. Not only do you have excellent detail and a background of which I'm SO jealous, you have a sense of humour too (title-wise). I found myself bending to the right in an attempt to orient the image in my mind, then wondering if the new position of my head was, indeed, 'mantis-style'!
#3, tied with another.
My only high vote involving colour. I have a fascination with fauna so I'm somewhat biased. The composition is really good and the title made me chuckle. For some reason it reminded me of watching the Five Deadly Venoms.
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