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Challenge: Life & Death (Basic Editing)
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S9100/9600
Location: Home
Date: Jul 25, 2009
Aperture: F5.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/60
Galleries: Interior, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jul 27, 2009

While on my way out the front door of my apartment to capture an image for this weeks challenge, I looked up and saw this little spider munching on a mouth. PERFECT!!! Here’s something that depicts Life & Death in one shot. So I went back into the apartment and grabbed the camera and a foot stool. I stood on the foot stool and had the camera set on MACRO and moved in about six inches from the spider and took several shots of this hungry little guy. Over all I am pleased with the shot but I was hoping to shoot a much bigger and more colorful spider eating for this challenge.

Camera Settings:

Editing:

Step 1 – Cropped image to 8” x 10”
Step 2 – Adjusted Levels (Auto), Colors (Auto) & Contrast (Auto)
Step 3 – Adjusted Shadows (50%) & Highlights (25%)
Step 4 – Saved image after adjustments as is (DSCF003b)
Step 5 – Image was resized to comply with DPC rules and resaved(DSCF003c)

Statistics
Place: 51 out of 75
Avg (all users): 4.8167
Avg (commenters): 4.6667
Avg (participants): 4.5652
Avg (non-participants): 4.8535
Views since voting: 814
Views during voting: 334
Votes: 180
Comments: 4
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08/18/2009 05:22:20 PM
Greetings from Andi via the Critique Club

First Impression: Looks like a last minute 'oh, theres a spider eating a moth, that will do for the life and death challenge' type shot?

Composition:The composition is quite good with the spider nicely off centre and its shadow filling the lower part of the frame.

Subject:Yup, meets the challenge well though am guessing this shot wasn't appealing to a;ll the spider haters.

Technical: Sadly, this is the area that lets this image down, the lighting is uneven, casting poor shadows and the image looks flat to me though not sure a simple contrast boost would lift it enough. Nothing is in sharp focus here, the closet bits are the hairs on the leftmost leg.

Final thoughts: I hate using the term 'snapshot' on challenge submissions but thats what I feel here. That said I can't seem to get a good result from these critters. I know this was a serendipitous moment but for challenge entries you need to take more care about the setup/lighting/composition etc. On a lighter note if you'd left your apartment to shoot your free study shot without seeing this little guy you'd have forgotten your camera :)
 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/31/2009 02:09:01 PM
Funny title...
07/30/2009 11:38:58 AM
Nice try here. Not a very clear cut image though.
07/29/2009 03:44:11 PM
That is a creepy spider.


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