Jacko's bugs are all bright and happy and cheerful (despite being dead) so I thought's I'd do a dark moody one.
I took this photo of a live bug on a tent blowing in the strong wind, with a hand-held reversed lens in front of my 50mm macro lens, also hand held. It was very very tricky, which explains the amount of editing I had to do.
Editing:
Adjust background colour
Burn background
dodge/burn bug
Sharpen bug
Touch up edges of bugto make them more defined
Neatimage
Blur background to reduce compression artifacts from Neatimage
Border
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A very harsh result for an excellent vibe - and unusual for the genre, but as you say it suffered some compression problems which may not have met with super-smooth image requirements of many voters here. It has a real feeling of death/disease about it - nice. :)
Such a weirdly nice looking image. You must have used some sort of PS effect right? I would have liked to see those back hairs closer to the front a bit clearer though. Cool effect and nice job.
The bugs just get uglier and uglier, but fortunately, the shots are still quite interesting. I like this one's iridescent wings. (I probably didn't spell that right, so I apologize.)
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