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Challenge: In the Garden II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-7D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
Location: In my garden :)
Date: Feb 24, 2010
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Feb 23, 2010

 This time of year the cicada's are everywhere around home. The green ones have only recently hatched so tend to stay still when you poke a lens in front of them. After an hour or so they "dry off" and start to turn brown and they fly away far too easily.

I love this macro lens but don't put it on enough!

[Feb. 26th, 2010 01:59:27 AM]

Are you voters taking the p*ss? The challenge says "compose a photograph somehow related to the garden" and this cicada is somehow related to the garden - they sit in the freaking thing all day long. Sometimes I do wonder how I can be so far out of sync with the voters - I really didn't think this shot was going be sitting at 5.3 after 100 votes :(

Statistics
Place: 45 out of 160
Avg (all users): 5.5571
Avg (commenters): 5.8571
Avg (participants): 5.4194
Avg (non-participants): 5.6149
Views since voting: 643
Views during voting: 316
Votes: 210
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 03/03/2010 06:03:25 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club

First Impressions:

Is that it is another macro bug shot.

Technical (Comp, lighting, color, focus, Processing):

Great job filling the frame with the subject and I think your composition is spot on. Lighting seems well done as well and the colors are rich and natural. I think your focus is very well done, super sharp and detailed in parts and smoothly blurred in others.

Challenge:

I think this met the challenge well, not sure what some of the voters were thinking when they couldn’t see the connection. Maybe if the bug was sitting on a recognizable object (tomato or something) then they could have made the connection better.

Artistic/Emotion:

N/A

Summary:

I think this is an excellent macro shot that, in my opinion, should have finished around a 6. I don’t think it was anything technical that hurt this shot but was rather a combination of voters not making the connection to the garden and voters who just don’t care for macro bug shots.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/02/2010 03:18:28 AM
Great macro/close up. Cicada's are alien looking bugs. Nice colours and your PP is good but not overdone. Great BG.
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 03/01/2010 11:43:43 AM
Great closeup. Wish for more setting for a "garden" photo.
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 03/01/2010 02:50:41 AM
I fail to see the connection to the garden, but it's an amazing shot nonetheless.
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 02/27/2010 04:03:41 PM
Awesome!! Encredible detail..
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 02/25/2010 05:54:00 PM
Interesting photo, but, doesnt really make me feel to gardeny.
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 02/23/2010 08:33:22 PM
Nice capture of the eyes, but shame on the blurred wings.
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 02/23/2010 07:27:13 PM
nice
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