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Hi again, everyone! It's been over a year since I posted anything, during which time I've moved to Liverpool, started a new job and not spent much time here on EPZ at all. But I'm glad to be back and looking forward to seeing what people have been up to while I've been away.
This shot is actually from before I moved and shows a slug munching away on a mushroom in Hollins Wood, near Esholt. Slugs are sloooow so a quarter of a second is plenty fast enough to stop the "action".
All comments and criticism welcome.
Dave.
Tuesday, 28th September, 2010.
50mm, f/5.6, 1/4s, ISO-200.
| Brand: | Canon |
| Camera: | Canon EOS 400D |
| Lens: | Canon 50mm f/1.4 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 28 Sep 2010 - 2:14 PM |
| Focal Length: | 50mm |
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/4sec |
| Exposure Comp: | -2/3 |
| ISO: | 200 |
| Exposure Mode: | Aperture-priority AE |
| Flash: | Off, Did not fire |
| Title: | Hungry slug |
| Username: | 
DRicherby |
| Uploaded: | 3 Mar 2012 - 11:49 AM |
| Tags: | Close-up / macro, Decay, Esholt, Forest, Hollins Wood, Mushrooms, Rotting, Slug, West yorkshire, Wildlife / nature, Woods |
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I like the image 
but not the subject 
- speaking as an allotment holder 
. Excellent detail.
Dave
Hi - welcome back! Good to see you again! And with such a wonderful image too!
Carol
I am especially glad to see you back on EPZ - truly I have missed your very candid and to the point comments, both good and bad; and I have missed you too.
But what a first upload - ergh! We do not have these over here in Texas. I fear they would die of the heat, but I certainly see enough of them in Norway and know the havoc they are wreaking - where was it they were imported from? They are termed "killer snails" at "home".
A rather natural upload - as seen in nature. Ugly moldy triangle in lower left has been dealt with - so my only comment is that the darks initially seemed too dark; but the more I look the more I wonder if they were lighter if they wouldn't make the scene busier?
Might fiddle around with a mod later on since you have enabled them.
Again, so very good to see you.
Come visit the Yin Yang Group when you have time.
Hope you are enjoying being in Liverpool, and your new job.
Anne
OK, mod uploaded. I always forget to leave the comment with the mod! I thought about a crop at the bottom, but Alan has already done one; I therefore decided to leave your image as is including the border.
Lightened the foreground a bit to bring out a bit more detail. Burned the area around the grey spot, slight desaturation, and then a vignette (-20) around the whole image.
Anne
Hi Dave, nice to see you are back.
Interesting shot, nice colour it really looks hungry, they eat anything, don't they? i know that they eat our record's sleeves.. Personally, i don't think they are as beautiful as batterfly , This is the first slug portrait I have ever seen. I come from Beijing, I had never seen a slug before I came here.
Thank you for your very helpful and knowledgeable comment on the "Milk measure". Yes, laptop still looks difference, I had changed a monitor since but your knowledge is still needed.
Thanks again.
Jasmine
This is a very nice close up or macro image..
There is nice detail and a good comp...
I think you have alot of dead area at bottom of image.
It not helping to improve this shot or tell a story about the image so a crop in this area would help...
This inturn will un-balance image...
I think a crop from bottom at right side where there is a bomp in wood..
Left side just after toadstools may be get first 2 at higher leavel...
Across the top above the wood...
This in turn should balance image..
May be a tweek or two to ensure slug is on the thirds to help people enjoy the image more...
Dave
Wow! This is a great shot, even though the subject can't run away)
Thank you for your thoughts Dave -- and everyone else, especially for the mods! And thank you for your warm welcomes back.
I can see why people want to lose space at the bottom, though I quite like the way it elevates the slug in the frame and shows how fragile his platform is; but the crops work well too.
Dave.
What a fabulous image, bags of detail.
Nice to see you back. You've been missed.
Your in my neck of the woods now (I'm over the other side of the Mersey in Wirral), so it'll be interesting to see your take on the area.
Good to have you back again and to know that the past year has been a good one for you.
We have had sooooooooooooooooooooooo much rain in the past few weeks that I'm expecting these in their droves- if that is the correct name for load of slugs.
Tiny little fungus OR normal sized fungus and gigantic slug - bigger, like better is a comparative
Helen
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