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Challenge: Macro IV (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: Animals
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 Macro
Location: Garden
Date: Jul 26, 2004
Aperture: f/2.5
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 26, 2004

 Jacko's bugs are all bright and happy and cheerful (despite being dead) so I thought's I'd do a dark moody one.

I took this photo of a live bug on a tent blowing in the strong wind, with a hand-held reversed lens in front of my 50mm macro lens, also hand held. It was very very tricky, which explains the amount of editing I had to do.

Editing:
Adjust background colour
Burn background
dodge/burn bug
Sharpen bug
Touch up edges of bugto make them more defined
Neatimage
Blur background to reduce compression artifacts from Neatimage
Border
Save

Statistics
Place: 115 out of 248
Avg (all users): 5.4341
Avg (commenters): 6.0000
Avg (participants): 5.2583
Avg (non-participants): 5.7742
Views since voting: 1115
Views during voting: 266
Votes: 182
Comments: 13
Favorites: 0

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 08/11/2004 01:05:43 PM
A very harsh result for an excellent vibe - and unusual for the genre, but as you say it suffered some compression problems which may not have met with super-smooth image requirements of many voters here. It has a real feeling of death/disease about it - nice. :)

Message edited by author 2004-08-11 13:07:02.
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 08/09/2004 08:31:07 AM
This was my favorite bug picture in the challenge, dark and moody and surreal I am dissapointed how low it ended up
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/08/2004 11:00:41 PM
This is one of the prettiest bug macros--what it lacks in sharpness and detail it makes up in aesthetics.
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 08/08/2004 08:36:14 PM
Nice feel from the post-processing - nice colour and tone. I like it, although there's not quite enough in focus.
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 08/07/2004 11:22:35 AM
Such a weirdly nice looking image. You must have used some sort of PS effect right? I would have liked to see those back hairs closer to the front a bit clearer though. Cool effect and nice job.
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 08/07/2004 05:38:18 AM
insect impressionism...I like it!
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 08/05/2004 12:37:03 PM
A little too blury, otherwise nice contrast
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 08/04/2004 06:37:05 PM
Dramatic contrast ands colors. Very nice focus on the head. DOF works well. Very very nice.
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 08/03/2004 10:51:49 AM
Super close! Focus on the eye area/head is great. Rainbow colors in the wings adds a nice touch.
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 08/02/2004 11:37:34 PM
Need deeper DOF.
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 08/02/2004 07:42:10 PM
The bugs just get uglier and uglier, but fortunately, the shots are still quite interesting. I like this one's iridescent wings. (I probably didn't spell that right, so I apologize.)
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 08/02/2004 06:23:05 PM
not enough DOF
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 08/02/2004 01:12:34 AM
Wonderfully creative I like the rainbow effect on the back good shot.
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