I was walking in the evening a few days ago and it started raining. I noticed a number snails moving out of the grass onto the wet road. Taking my *ist D out of the plastic shopping bag (yes I was prepared) and getting down on the road I took this with an A50 1.7.
http://home.wlu.edu/~desjardi/ I'm not completely happy with this. I got most of the snail in focus, but the center of the shell is a bit off, as is the end of one "stalk" In addition, there are some blown highlights on the shell. The big problem though is that I find the out of focus gravel to be distracting. Any ideas? I tried selecting the blurred positions and doing a Gaussian blur to soften them a bit, but the contrast with the sharp gravel "path" was too much. Any suggestions? I am planning a series of B&W's of snails playing saxophones for money in Lexington, but they're not ready yet . . . ;-)
