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Orchard spider 2

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted February 1, 2018131 views8 comments

Here is another picture of an orchard spider. saturated this picture and boosted color to pull out web and bring out the BG. Feedback appreciated! Ry PS -I cleaned up the image a bit based on the feedback you've given me. Thanks!
Ry
Handheld

Canon EOS 7D Mark II
LENS	100-400mm f/5.7-40
ISO	2000
FOCAL LENGTH	400.0 mm (631.0 mm in 35mm)
APERTURE	f/7.1
EXPOSURE TIME	0.004s (1/250)

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Balan Vinod on February 1, 2018 at 2:00 AM

Ry ..orchard weavers are beautiful specides to make images of. I like this image which exhibits its typical character of hanging upside down.

Nice work

Balan Vinod

Registered on March 20, 2006, 889 Posts, 2312 Comments

Comment posted by Craig Moreau on February 1, 2018 at 9:54 AM

Ry, this is a very colorful spider. I think you saturating the image was a good choice here. The composition is also nice, with the spider just slightly off-center.

You have a few dust spots that I would clean up: left edge below center, and bottom edge right of center. I also recommend a slight crop off the top to eliminate the bright yellow in the ULC and the OOF water droplet next to it.

Registered on April 21, 2015, 64 Posts, 584 Comments

Comment posted by Mark Seaver on February 1, 2018 at 10:07 AM

Ry, to my eye, the spider's colors are a bit strong, but that's a subtlety and it sure does let the spider grab most of the attention. Getting the full web and a colorful but oof background looks good. Because of the high iso, there moderate noise in the background. You may be able to reduce this a bit with noise reduction in raw processing (assuming that you're using raw processing), but that's a minor detail in a very nice view.

Registered on January 23, 2011, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments

Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on February 4, 2018 at 12:05 PM

I like this a lot.
The web and the colors of the spider are superb.

D&L

Registered on October 7, 2008, 166 Posts, 3044 Comments

Comment posted by Yun Gao on February 4, 2018 at 11:57 PM

Ry, I like your composition. Very nice spider web in great shape. The background is noisy because of the high ISO.

Registered on September 11, 2012, 267 Posts, 1621 Comments

Comment posted by scott lanz on February 5, 2018 at 10:04 AM

Excellent, Ry. You really nailed the dof/pof for the spider, web, and bg. Only negative is the noise level as noted by others.

Registered on November 14, 2003, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments

Comment posted by Ry Birge on February 6, 2018 at 4:58 PM

I've cleaned up the image based on the feedback you've given. Thanks Ry

Registered on September 23, 2017, 118 Posts, 278 Comments

Comment posted by Lucy VanSwearingen on February 15, 2018 at 9:52 PM

You teach me to change backgrounds and I'll coach you on noise reduction...But, only if I get to photography your pond sad

The subject is pretty, but there is some color noise in the BG.

Registered on May 23, 2009, 800 Posts, 2042 Comments