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Spider Day 14
Spider Day 14
riversong


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Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Location: backyard
Date: Jun 14, 2007
Aperture: 10.0
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/120
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Jun 14, 2007

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Comments: 12
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 Creepy spider on my garden gate. I like to think of them as organic bug killers. As long as they don't bite me! Does this look too sharpened? The fence bothers me in the foreground, but it is rough in texture.

Cropped
adjusted levels
tiny bit burn
resized
unsharp mask twice-slightly

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 06/16/2007 03:26:35 PM
Although closely related, it isn't really a spider. It's a harvestman of the order Opilones. They don't bite and they even eat Black Widows...and statements like the one I just made are the reason that my friends think I'm weird.

I really love everything about this image: the detail, shallow depth of field, diagonal composition and beautiful warm tones. Nice work.
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 06/15/2007 03:21:59 PM
Nice one. Sometimes it is difficult to get sharpness just right, but you've done a pretty good job. The composition is wonderful.
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 06/15/2007 01:45:30 PM
It's a daddy long-legs ! Harmless- great photo of him/her and the fence board is a bit too sharp- you wanted the focus on your friend :) But he is very sharp too so I just don't think it matters !
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 06/15/2007 12:36:07 PM
I really love the composition of this and the textures. It makes me feel like I could reach out and touch that fence. I like that the spider's walking away from me too :))
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 06/15/2007 05:23:16 AM
Just love how this is so illustrative. Excellent capture.
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 06/15/2007 04:17:04 AM
Wow, Amazing detail and neat compositin! The fence in the foreground does look a little oversharpened to my eyes. Great Capture!!
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 06/15/2007 02:22:10 AM
The composition is nice the board being on an angle or it's the way u shot this .. The legs clearly depicted and i wouldn't see the board as over sharpened looks very natural..
Nice Macro..
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 06/14/2007 11:17:45 PM
Another great image from you, and look forward to seeing more.....
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 06/14/2007 10:51:59 PM
No, it's not too sharpen. Otherwise I don't think that you could capture the spider's nice "legs".
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 06/14/2007 08:52:16 PM
Excellent macro of the spider. I'll have to learn about layers and sharpening just an object also.
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 06/14/2007 07:26:19 PM
Okay..thanks for the advice. I've never done layers before. I'll play around. I thought it looked too sharpened and a tad too dark.
 06/14/2007 07:18:09 PM
I like it though I do think the board beneath the spider looks a bit over sharpened. Maybe just sharpen the spider, it look great and leave the background unsharpened. Still a cool photo!
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