Trying cropping it just a bit at the bottom, to remove the reddish stone
and the two bright stones at lower right. It makes the backgound
compete less with the"model."
Steve Desjardins wrote:
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 . . . ;-)
