btw, just scrolled through your Flickr page and you are doing a bang up job! 8 pages of pictures now! Very impressive.
I typically do not like vignette but for some reason this one works for me!
As far as the ant shot goes, it is a beautiful shot, however, when I opened it up on Flicker, I noticed the head and eye weren't in focus, this will hurt you greatly in a competition. I thought you were more wide open and noticed you were at f/8! It probably would have taken f/13 or f/16. At that point, you worry about diffraction and simply having too slow a shutter speed to compensate for being so stopped down in macro.
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btw, just scrolled through your Flickr page and you are doing a bang up job! 8 pages of pictures now! Very impressive.
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The antface shot was just a fun shot. Maybe I will go back and try a smaller aperture. My flickr account sure does tell the story doesn't it Ricardo
Pat
Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
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I might try lightening this up a bit and add selective contrast plus sharpening to the spider. I like a slight vign. but this is a little heavy for me eye as it renders the two lower corners overly dark.
Stan
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Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Here you go Ricardo.
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Your discus are talking to you....are you listening
Lovely Pat
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The results of the Macro are in.
The score for the colored image was 78.33
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The score for the B&W was 83.33. A bit surprised to take 3rd.
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The B&W was a really stellar shot. I'm glad you went with it
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