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Challenge: Unusual Viewpoint (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Animals
Camera: Olympus E-20P
Location: Home
Date: May 23, 2004
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: May 23, 2004

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I captured several cicadas in my back yard and put a fish hook through the thorax of each one attached to fishing line. I set up the camera and prefocused. I held up the fishing lines with the cicadas attached and jiggled them so the cicadas would try to fly away. I took several shots to get one I liked. Although the picture looks like a stop action of a single cicada, it is actually 3 cicadas in motion. I cropped the image and cloned out the fishing hooks and fishing line. Sharpened the image, enhanced the contrast and cleaned up the backround with Neat Image. Voila!

Statistics
Place: 13 out of 186
Avg (all users): 6.3836
Avg (commenters): 7.7778
Avg (participants): 6.1556
Avg (non-participants): 6.6812
Views since voting: 2241
Votes: 159
Comments: 11
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 11/04/2005 08:13:54 PM
Did they die? This is an amazing capture. It'd be funny to see the start of a bird's beack coming in the top left of the frame.
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 06/05/2004 10:18:45 AM
Great shot!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/28/2004 12:57:09 AM
Wow! Can't wait for this tutorial.
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 05/27/2004 11:34:12 AM
Neat idea and well executed. One of the more original unusual viewpoints. Compositionally it would be better if there were no merger of the two upper insects.
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 05/26/2004 04:06:21 PM
Unexpected and unsettling. Very sharp and well composed. Well done!
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 05/26/2004 12:56:08 PM
woow, now that's an unusual view point. very nice, very nice indeed.
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 05/26/2004 11:57:46 AM
I'll look forward to seeing your photographer's notes on this one. It's beautiful and I want to know how you did it! 10
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 05/25/2004 09:44:25 PM
Dead insects on a glass plate?
nice shot.
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 05/25/2004 06:16:55 PM
Matter of taste, but I don't enjoy looking at insects -- but try to not score on that. The wings have a very nice silverly glint in them. I would have liked to have seen a different rotation maybe for the composition? With a really sharp focus, the lines may have had stronger impact for me.
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 05/24/2004 02:14:36 PM
Awesome, 9
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 05/24/2004 12:03:32 PM
Would be interested to know how this was done..very effective image
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