On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Walt Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's a spider shot I took today using Larry's K100Ds with my M 50/2 > attached. It was under pretty deplorable photography conditions, but it was > the only time I've had a chance to get a shot of this particular spider -- > one of three within a few yards of each other with webs built between the > roof line and the windowsill on the front of the house. Normally, as soon > as I get anywhere near them, they scramble up into the rain gutters. But, > this time, this particular spider didn't take off and I managed to get an > angle shooting upward between the wall of the house and the sky. > Unfortunately, I had to shoot straight into the sun, and I just wasn't able > to use the flash well enough to compensate for the backlit conditions. But, > when I got to looking at the image on the ol' computer, I liked the outline > too much to relegate to the crap archive. > > So, I cropped the hell out of it, sharpened the hell out of it, added some > "film grain" to it, converted it to monochrome and made it into a > silhouette. > > > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/walt_gilbert/6233509410/ > K100Ds, M 50/2, ISO 200, f/16, 1/500 > > I've toyed with tinting the background with somewhat interesting results, > but to my eye, they detract from what I've done already. So, I figured I'd > ask if anyone had any suggestions as to how I might improve it as an image. > It's obviously not a showcase shot for a portfolio. It just struck me as a > cool silhouette given the upcoming Halloween season. Plus, I've wanted a > shot of that spider for a while, and I've never gotten a good shot of one in > motion like that. > > Thanks! >
Cool. The grain works well here. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
