This is part of a cactus that I have been growing for around eight years now. I waited for the last bit of sun filtered through some trees in the backyard to get the golden color and then had to set it on my deck top rail and turn it just so to get the fingertips lit up the way I wanted. In addition to the great texture, I like how the shapes combine to create several geometrical planes at several different intersecting angles.
Exposure was set in manual mode to achieve the narrow DOF while properly exposing for the highlights. The image was processed in PhotoPaint to boost the saturation just a tad and of course to add some unsharp mask.
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nice shadows, maybe crop the bottom and the left side so so the brightest and focused part of the cactus comes into the frame from the corner. it will define the texture better
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This is great... the lighting and shadows cast on this cactus are quite nice... my only critique on this image is that I would have preferred to see a little less darkness across the bottom of the frame. I think that a slightly higher camera angle would have made two improvements here... first, it would have removed the dark band across the bottom of the frame... secondly, it would have kept the top of the cactus from being so close to the top edge of the frame. It is a little too close for comfort at the top... a little breathing room there would be nice :) = 8 - jmsetzler
the lighting in this photo makes it appealing to the eye more than the texture but it is a great shot and the lighting is what makes the texture stand out. great job!
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