Taken at Scales and Tails. Special thanks to Tyler for getting it out for me to play with. The couple decent pictures I have all co-star that silly little white fuzzy. Major color, brightness, contrast adjustments not to mention flipped about the veritcal axis so he's facing left.
Prediction - 5.6
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1. It might have been nicer to get a shot of the animal in an environment at least similar to its natural habitat - this seems to be a table or floor.
2. The lighting is very harsh - clearly a lam,p held quite close to the subject.
3. I'm not keen on the thick border (this is more of a personal thing than a photography critique).
Having said that you've brought out the texture on the shell very well indeed.
I'm not big on the lighting of this shot, although I can appreciate it was probably a tricky subject to light given the colour of it. I think no border or a thin border would have made the image seem less heavy.
This creature looks dangerous! I think it's the only scorpion in the challenge, clever! The light gives it the impression the spotlight is on it. Scorpion dance on stage :-)
The light source appears to have overexposed part of the picture while leaving some of the picture underexposed. Also, depth of field seems to be a little too shallow, the legs at the top of the picture and the tail (stinger?) are out of focus.
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