Spinyback Spider

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200macro, Velvia, CoolScan III

-- Les Saucier (skincamp@skybest.com), April 28, 1999

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I think you didn4t have the best results scanning your photo ... it4s confuse and the colors are too pixelized ... maybe it4s better you re-scan the photo and send us again ...

-- Charles Dias (deepblue97a@hotmail.com), April 28, 1999.

What's the light source here?

I think it's a good image, though that crusty line of web goo at the top detracts from it and there's 'something' missing....it's like the spider isn't big enough to be the star and the same with the design of the web. I'd like to see one or the other figure more prominently I guess.

Which 200mm macro was it?

Thanks for posting.

-- Tom Van Veen (tvanveen@accmail.umd.edu), April 28, 1999.


Tom, I shot this with the old nikon 200 macro manual focus. The spider is silhouetted against the early morning sun, so that is the light source. Charles, you are right there is pixelizing in the flares around the sun. But it is not there when I look at this file in Photoshop. When I figure it out I'll change the file. Is there a pill you can take for pixelizing?

-- Les Saucier (skincamp@skybest.com), April 28, 1999.

I assumed the "goo" at the top of the web was part of the vertical whitish stripe that's part of a typical orb-weaving spider's web. I don't understand why the sun's round contour has turned so nine-sided; that seems like a camera effect and probably not what it would look like to the eye. But I like the composition with the spider centered in the light, and the web pattern visible around the edges.

-- John Sullivan (sullivan@spies.com), April 29, 1999.

One of the best lessons John and Barbara Gerlach taught me was never to stop down too far with the sun in the frame. The "Aperture effect" makes the sun look more like a stop sign than a circle, and is unnatural and very distracting, IMO. Otherwise the image is good and well thought out. I like the red color of the legs.

-- Rob Pailes (rpailes@peganet.com), April 29, 1999.


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