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Challenge: Rock Song Titles (Advanced Editing VII)
Collection: Flowers and Bugs
Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D
Location: Springfield, VA
Date: Mar 27, 2009
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Nature
Date Uploaded: Mar 27, 2009

 It rained all day yesterday so these are natural waterdrops ;-) Took me awhile to find the itsy bitsy spider after I saw the web. I don't generally like to get too close to spiders but when I saw the web that song popped into my head so I had to find the weaver.

Used fill flash since he was backlit and had the 20mm extension tube on.

PP - converted from RAW, cropped, 2nd layer (Gaussian blur, dodged spider, merged in multiply mode), levels, 3rd layer to tone down the red sticks (shifted color balance to teal, erased spider, merged at 20% transparency), tinted some bits of background greener, cloned out some foreground blur on top of stick and a little of stick's shadow, reduced noise, added border, resized, sharpened.

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Place: 97 out of 175
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Avg (commenters): 5.8750
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Nikon D700
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 04/01/2009 09:39:00 PM
wow, you really got in close there, well done
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Nikon D7000
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 04/01/2009 04:46:41 PM
I like the strong shape created by the twigs...
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Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark III
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 03/31/2009 03:19:02 PM
This has the mood of the song - nice!
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
 03/30/2009 08:59:42 PM
Great lighting!
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
 03/30/2009 11:28:00 AM
great textures and dof, thought I might see an entry like this! 7
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Olympus SP-570 UZ
 03/30/2009 05:29:06 AM
I love the idea!
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Nikon D7100
Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR
 03/30/2009 03:22:45 AM
tough shot, I like the composition but the spider is a little glarey
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Nikon D800
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 03/30/2009 01:16:41 AM
really nice light and bokeh...nice 7
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