The quote originally said by the Apollo 13 crew was "Houston, we've had a problem." Oh, and it's a dragonfly people, geeze!
Yup, he's dead. I spent all morning out in a field in search of a live one to shoot in its natural environment, but couldn't find one. I came home and there was a dead one laying right there in the lawn. Go fig...
This is my 50mm reversed and with a 36mm extension tube. I put a diffusion screen between him and a window. I also threw a flash back there from the right.
Lightroom Urban Style preset
Tweaked with Saturation, Fill light, Black clipping, and exposure.
Reduced the vignette produced by preset
Photoshop CS5 Masked wing and boosted red saturation
Levels adjustment
Cloned out some dust bunnies
Topaz Denoise on everything, and then just the body and top of wing
Burned some stuff
Dodged some stuff
Gradiant on color burn around edges
Resize to 1200
Sharpen
Resize to final
Selectively sharpened rock and wing edge
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I knew right away what this was when I saw it (or, at least, I knew what the wing was and quickly deduced the larger subject). I didn't vote, but this really is an awesome shot. The relevance to the quote is perfect, but the silhouette of the head with crossed legs is pretty haunting (quite reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock). Very cool- fav for sure.
You got robbed. Big time. This is wayyy better than a low 5. I gave this a 7, but if I'd revisited my votes, I probably would have bumped it up. Great semi-abstracty stuff. I think I'll fave it.
Cleverly done, from the D-Fly 'shadow' to the close focus on torn wing. the quote is accurate, if based on the movie, inaccurate if based on the real event, so tough one.
Lovely - dof and coloration and shapes - shape in the background is almost comical - is it a dragonfly? Or ET? You made me look at this for a long time.
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