This creature was hanging out on our rock wall earlier this week. It's horizontal wing span was between 4 and 5 inches, and its body was about 3 inches.
Rotated, cropped, saturated a touch, and unsharp mask.
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Well, I guess this got pretty thoroughly talked about in the forums, so i don't know that I have much to add to my thoughts as expressed then.
Two things I will put here though, more relative to the reason it scored as it did rather than your photography - I'm sure you got the shot you wanted, and technically there's nothing to criticise.
Firstly i think it was unclear what the hell this was: some of the comments show that, and I had the same reaction - is this some kind off cuddly toy? So i think you perhaps needed to crop it less closely, or show more of it.
Secondly, location: it could really be anywhere, couldn't it? I'd have tried to include something that clearly placed it in a garden, as i think that is required by the challenge.
If you could have achieved both those things and still kept the detail of the furriness of it I think you'd have had a winner.
I like the amount of zoom you chose here. You captured alot of detail and I believe has more appeal than just a picture of a moth. What might of helped is just a slight different vantage point to show more of the face.
If I could have voted I probably would have given it a 7 or 8.
Is it a moth? Very hard to tell. Technically an excellent shot, I like the colours and you've got a nice combination with the DOF and the shard detail on the left side. Good job, look forward to finding out what it is.
i dunno what this is, but i think it could either be a very good macro of a hairy spider... or else its a soft toy or something. the dof is nice, but i dont really see any real focal point of the photo
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