When I found this beautiful spider in the bathtub I knew I found my subject for this challenge. But I don't own a macro lens, so I decided to try something creative.
I placed him on an angled mirror on my kitchen table by a window, the background is the outside reflected onto the mirror. I used a tripod and natural light.
I'm always forgetting to check the ISO and it was set at 800 from the last time I used the camera so I've got quite a bit of noise, but I kind of like the effect it gave the photograph, it looks almost like a water color painting.
I really didn't do much post-processing. I made a few adjustments in raw, cropped, applied neat image, adjusted levels and hue, then added the border.
I predict this won't do well because it isn't close enough. I hope you like it anyway.
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7 - Yes, I like this. For me though, the 'reflections' in the background overwhelm the delicacy of the spider too much, perhaps even the green color too. Otherwise nice shot . More detail on the spider would be good too, but I guess you'd have to chop 'his' legs off to get that. I am guessing it is water?
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