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Busy Homemaker
Busy Homemaker
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Challenge: Busy (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon PowerShot Pro1
Location: home, yard
Date: Nov 1, 2005
Aperture: 2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 150
Galleries: Macro
Date Uploaded: Nov 1, 2005

 There are some incredibly huge spiders of all colors in my back yard. They make equally huge webs that I have been spraying with water and shooting from many angles. I think they are getting used to me and have stopped balling up when I spray them. Being a nurse and "tomboy" makes me more facinated than squeemish about being 2 inches from them while shooting.
Used super macro mode
Slight crop
slight bump in contrast and saturation
unsharp mask
resize
5th and 6.8! Cool! Thanks!!

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 190
Avg (all users): 6.8386
Avg (commenters): 8.0909
Avg (participants): 6.6486
Avg (non-participants): 6.9167
Views since voting: 2666
Views during voting: 377
Votes: 254
Comments: 28
Favorites: 1 (view)

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 11/10/2005 06:52:58 AM
I love this shot!!!! I gave it a 10 !!!!!!
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 11/10/2005 05:00:37 AM
Great angle.
Ha! yes I love working close up on insects too. Was very easy to do with my A80 and close up filters - tougher with the Canon 350 and macro lens - hoping to save for accessories that allow me to get up real close again.Good luck and have fun. Congratulations on your top 5 finish.
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 11/08/2005 07:17:14 PM
Outstanding shot! Really superb! Congrats on your top 5 finish!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
11/08/2005 01:29:54 PM
Very nicely done -- I'm always jealous of people who are able to pull off such good macros!
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 11/08/2005 12:43:43 PM
Beautiful
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 11/08/2005 09:33:15 AM
greta shot!
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 11/08/2005 05:17:29 AM
Very nice shot! COngratulations
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 11/07/2005 10:21:30 PM
Very well done. Pinsharp where it should be and the light on the underside is just dazzling. But the photo is too frozen for my taste to convey the sense of "busy".
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 11/07/2005 01:13:40 AM
wonderful point of view, so glad I saw this
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 11/06/2005 07:55:37 PM
very cool, actually awsome. The perspecive and the focus/DOF couldn't be better (9)
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 11/05/2005 09:16:05 AM
That' a great shot! Nice focus & use of dof.
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 11/04/2005 11:03:28 AM
awesome macro - love the blur and the clarity of the subject - a great capture - and great fit for this challenge - good job!
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 11/04/2005 04:18:07 AM
Great Perspective, and texture.
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 11/03/2005 02:41:22 PM
8 - Oh, good shot, good coloring. Nice macro(?). Good 'catch' for the Challenge. Really like the way you captured the 'leg work' here. Criticism; more detail somehow (tighter crop perhaps, but then you lose the perspective) on those legs 'working', may have made this even better in my opinion. Like the composition - with the 'diagonal' using the web and 'whiteness', etc.
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 11/03/2005 01:50:47 PM
Incredible macro shot. You could count the 'hair' on its legs, not that I'd care to.
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 11/03/2005 10:06:13 AM
Fresh colors, sharpness... I need macro lens!...9
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 11/03/2005 06:54:40 AM
Awsome shot! She is definitly busy. 10
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 11/03/2005 01:52:32 AM
Very nice shot! I like the water on the cobwebs. I think IMHO there is just a bit too much of the web in the foreground. Maybe try and crop it a bit closer to the spider. My two cents ;o)
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 11/02/2005 08:01:25 PM
i would suggest a deeper depth of field... to where you could see the detail of the web just a bit more... but the detail of the spider itself is indredible. and the color too. nice work.
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 11/02/2005 07:26:50 PM
SO SO! NICE AND DELICATE !
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 11/02/2005 04:32:34 PM
Nice picture. Love the angle of this shot and the green colors. Nice details.
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 11/02/2005 04:08:15 PM
Love the depth of field
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 11/02/2005 02:58:45 PM
nice macro capture, love that the spider is actually "busy" working on the web, and the dew drops add to the busy pattern, well done
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 11/02/2005 12:24:01 PM
Great light, great perspective, and great focus/DoF!
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 11/02/2005 09:00:03 AM
Wow! Incredible capture!! Lightings great! Rich colors are awesome! Very nicely done! And he's "busy" as well!
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 11/02/2005 08:26:13 AM
Very nice, good job.
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 11/02/2005 03:59:17 AM
Wow, nice job!
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 11/01/2005 09:19:36 PM
Great capture. I love the clarity and sharpness of this photo! Great job :) 8
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