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Emperor Scorpion
Emperor Scorpion
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Fauna (Classic Editing)
Camera: Olympus C-5050Z
Location: Scales and Tails - Saginaw, MI
Date: Apr 21, 2003
Aperture: f/2.8
ISO: 64
Shutter: 1/40 sec
Galleries: Animals
Date Uploaded: Apr 22, 2003

 Taken at Scales and Tails. Special thanks to Tyler for getting it out for me to play with. The couple decent pictures I have all co-star that silly little white fuzzy. Major color, brightness, contrast adjustments not to mention flipped about the veritcal axis so he's facing left.

Prediction - 5.6

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Views since voting: 1826
Votes: 237
Comments: 11
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/29/2003 07:55:45 AM
Interesting lighting with the spot on the head of the creature, but I think I would have wanted to see the tail with the stinger equally to the head
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 04/28/2003 10:32:39 AM
Interesting lighting.
 04/28/2003 06:41:08 AM
wow
 04/25/2003 09:30:11 AM
good pic. nice job.
 04/24/2003 04:17:27 PM
Very cool lighting. This dude scares me. I like the texture and detail in the hairs.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 04/24/2003 06:46:35 AM
Reflections on the subject....is it real and alive???
 04/24/2003 12:56:25 AM
I have a few criticisms of this pic:

1. It might have been nicer to get a shot of the animal in an environment at least similar to its natural habitat - this seems to be a table or floor.
2. The lighting is very harsh - clearly a lam,p held quite close to the subject.
3. I'm not keen on the thick border (this is more of a personal thing than a photography critique).

Having said that you've brought out the texture on the shell very well indeed.
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 04/23/2003 02:28:01 PM
I'm not big on the lighting of this shot, although I can appreciate it was probably a tricky subject to light given the colour of it. I think no border or a thin border would have made the image seem less heavy.
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 04/23/2003 06:08:46 AM
very nice
 04/23/2003 06:07:04 AM
This creature looks dangerous! I think it's the only scorpion in the challenge, clever! The light gives it the impression the spotlight is on it. Scorpion dance on stage :-)
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 04/23/2003 05:45:22 AM
The light source appears to have overexposed part of the picture while leaving some of the picture underexposed. Also, depth of field seems to be a little too shallow, the legs at the top of the picture and the tail (stinger?) are out of focus.
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