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An early morning quick shot of a spider, not using anything special but the macro setting on auto....one day I will be brave enough to move away from auto!!
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon Powershot G12 |
| Lens: | 6.1-30.5 mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 8 Sep 2012 - 8:33 AM |
| Focal Length: | 8.9mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/3.2 |
| Aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/500sec |
| Exposure Comp: | 0.0 |
| ISO: | 80 |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | Auto, Did not fire |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | Early Morning Spider |
| Username: | 
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| Uploaded: | 8 Sep 2012 - 3:05 PM |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Wildlife / nature |
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I don't know what editing, if any, you've carried out on this but I think that it's a touch over-sharpened.
Also, your camera has tried to expose for both the brightness in the background and the darker spider and has consequently compromised both.
I've uploaded a mod. in which I've used the shadows/highlights tool to get back some of the detail in the spider, hopefully without spoiling the rest of the image too much. It might require a little experimentation to get the best possible result.
I know that all sounds a bit negative but don't be put off. It's still a terrific shot.
Hope this helps.
Bren.
My first thought was that the image looked slightly over-edited in the sharpness department and in fact, the first critique I read also referred to it, so I think there's no need to repeat that. I like the modification presented by Jestertheclown and agree with his comment that it's a good shot. Not sure if this is the case, maybe others can confirm or correct me if I'm wrong, but possibly spot-metering on the spider would have been better in order not to lose details in the shadows and avoid having to correct this in post-processing. Again, I stress I could be wrong so let me know if that's the case.
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