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Challenge: From the Ground Up III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4.5 DC Macro for Canon
Location: India
Date: Aug 7, 2006
Aperture: f/8
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Aug 8, 2006

 This was shot under a tree.
I shot this photo to get a perspective of web and the Spider. It was natural light. Slightly pulled the web to get the light fall on spider.
Little editing:
adjusted Brightness/contrast
increased saturation
unsharp mask

Statistics
Place: 194 out of 361
Avg (all users): 5.2090
Avg (commenters): 5.0000
Avg (participants): 5.0879
Avg (non-participants): 5.3091
Views since voting: 802
Views during voting: 266
Votes: 201
Comments: 3
Favorites: 0

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Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II
Olympus 14-54mm f/2.8-3.5 Zuiko Digital Zoom
 08/21/2006 12:16:12 PM
Hi! Here’s a comment from the Critique Club.

First Impression:
Nice shot! My eyes went to the spider, the bottom right corner along the bottom and then back to the spider body

Composition:
I like the balance of dark and green. Top left dark balances with the bottom right dark area. The spider balanced by the green area in the bottom right. I think I may have changed the angle slightly to see more of the spider body.

Subject:
Meets challenge, but does not come across as an obvious “looking up” shot.

Technical:
I like the lighting and colours. DOF is really shallow. Would have been nice to have more of the spider and web in focus. You didn’t mention cropping. If this was out of camera placement, well done.

Summary:
Nice capture and colours. The lack of obvious “looking up” and the shallow perspective on the spider may have hurt your score. Voters usually don’t spend a lot of time figuring out what they are looking at. Good luck in future entries!
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Canon EOS-30D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 08/15/2006 09:21:24 PM
A very cool photo! I like it. A very liberal interpretation of the, "from the ground up" challenge. It will be interesting to see what the voters will think. Good Luck!!
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Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM
 08/15/2006 05:16:08 PM
Part of the challenge of showing somethign from the persective of the ground up is actually showing that the persepctive is from the ground up. I give benefit of the doubt that you were standing underneath this bug and shot upwards but the angles of the web strands, the fact that there is a fly on the right hanging 'down' - all these things really give the impression that this was pretty much shot straight on horizontally. Little more DOF would be nice to make out more of the web. Hard to make out anything on the spider itself other than the yellow blob on the back. Overall nothing to really interest the viewer here or move the eye around the shot. Biggest drawback though is the perspective thing. Good effort.
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