Now where's that snail?

Discussion

8 replies

Posted by David Taylor on March 6, 2013 at 4:36 PM

Taken today.

Sigma SD 14 dslr
Sigma Bigma at 191 mm
f8 1/200 sec
Tripod
ISO 400
Manual exposure, auto focus
Ambient light
RAW file Processed in SPP 5.4
PictureWindowPro32v6
Re-sized in StereoPhotoMaker 4.39

Thanks for looking

Posted by Neil Burton on March 7, 2013 at 4:44 AM

Really need to get everything forwards from the background, just a bit distracting. But he setup is starting to work.

Posted by Mike Smith on March 7, 2013 at 6:13 AM

Great idea, overall gardening set up doesn't phase me, but a minor nit in that the red channel looks clipped at highlight end giving a slight red hue to the image, if a raw file have a look at the channel balance

Posted by David Sewell on March 7, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Great idea, and I love the hidden snail, but I do agree with Neil that you need to lift the foreground subjects from the background, which is still too distracting. Keep at it though, they are getting better and better.

David

Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on March 7, 2013 at 2:58 PM

Agree with what's been said here David, much better but background is still too distracting for me

Oscar

Posted by Nick Mckeown on March 7, 2013 at 5:05 PM

Agree about the BG David but I like the setting. Great project.

Nick.

Posted by Barry Southon on March 8, 2013 at 5:31 AM

David

All interesting valid points nevertheless. Thanks for sharing.

Posted by Jeroen Stel on March 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM

Lovely set up and pose of the bird (and snail..) but find the BG too distracting for this image.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel

Posted by Phil Ellard on March 9, 2013 at 6:14 AM

I love the setting but having the branches more blurred as neil says would help, but i shot i do like