Re: PAW - Snail's pace
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 . . . ;-)
Re: PAW - Snail's pace
Steve, I think you have done well for a hand held shot, and I don't find the OOF parts of the snail that distracting. Your situation is pretty much like one I had with a shot of a swallowtail butterfly from Shenandoah. I ended up cropping. Have you considered that for the snail shot? I'll see if I can put up the butterfly later tonight. Jostein - Original Message - From: "Steve Desjardins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 7:36 PM Subject: PAW - Snail's pace > 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 . . . ;-) >
RE: PAW - Snail's pace
I agree about the unsharp gravel (tarmac). The limit between the sharp and unsharp tarmac is so well defined that you could actually take it out (in Danish:free scrape) and replace it with blue sky or what ever. I think it's a nice photograph of a snail. The tarmac makes me think about nature vs. man-made stuff etc. Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Steve Desjardins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 25. juni 2004 19:36 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: PAW - Snail's pace 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 . . . ;-)
