A last minute entry... aren't they all? I ordered a couple of spider rolls (soft shell crab) from a nearby sushi bar and arranged them on a plotter print of a spider web I shot a few weeks ago. I tried to spread out the legs to reinforce the spider aspect, but deep-fried crab legs are fragile things. ;-)
My lighting setup is pretty lousy (full spectrum bulbs in two desk lamps), so I used a ridiculous number of camera settings, then snapped 3 shots in RAW on a whim. Of course, the RAW shots were VASTLY superior to the JPEGs. I don't like working with cumbersome RAW files, but they certainly rescued me here. It didn't help that I broke my tripod while setting up for this and had to shoot handheld.
BTW- Since I wrote the challenge suggestion, I felt compelled to enter this one. We'll see if I should have...
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Y'know, I'm a little surprised this placed as well as it did. The mass of "stuff" in the center of the image is just too busy for my taste, but that's what I get for waiting until the last minute. I'll bet a single roll (with lots of legs) held between the chopsticks would have worked much better. I also blew the contrast (as crabappl3 correctly pointed out) by not viewing the entry on a CRT- the background is totally black on a good LCD monitor. Still, I'm doing a major happy dance for finally reaching my goal of 6 for a profile average. Woohoo! :-D
FWIW- Like many spiders, I did eat my subject after the fun was over.
I like the overall idea of this shot. I feel you should crop so the food isn't dead center of the image. The photo underneath of the spider web would be more dramatic with it being black and not grey in between the webs. - 7
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