Cricket

Which one do you like the best out of the three?

Number 1 for me, although would be interested in seeing No. 2 in colour.

The crickets head and body is too much in shadow for me on No. 3.


Regards,

Andrew Stannard,

Here is the color version of picture #2

Cody White said:

Here is the color version of picture #2

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Hi Cody,

Looks better in color, but I like you # 1 picture best. It has better compositional elements, and it looks like the critter is looking at us bewildered/taxing. The interaction makes it stronger.

Cheers,
Bart

Thanks Bart

Cody White said:

Andrew Stannard,

Here is the color version of picture #2

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Cody,

Bravo!

I like this one as the cricket dominates the picture and the position is interesting. Here the cricket appears to be coming down to meet us, and that's pleasant. (Going from left to right and rising might have added a sense of positivity, each angle you choose can bring a different effect). Color is needed as there is nothing of much substance outside of the cricket to get involved in an intimate way with tonalities. On the other hand, here, the color is so full of real life and represents nature so well that it's a far better choice. A lot of the essence of the grasshopper is lost in B&W. Now a host of crickets huddling under a rock might be far more interesting fro B&W as the grey scale could be distributed around so many textures, shadows and pattern repeats.

Thanks for sharing!

Asher

Cody,

I would add that you can use a software program to increase the sharpness all along the cricket. Use a tripod and focus on the head, thorax and abdomen in a series of say 6 pictures and then a focus stacker program will fix them up as one perfect cricket, such as Cris Andrew's hover Fly, here, if that's what you might ever want.

Not that's it's needed here!

Asher

Thank you all.

Now, I will tell you the truth on this one.

It was a snapshot, no planning or tripod used.
I even forgot to set the white balance.

Here is a copy of the original file that has been converted from .cr2 to .jpg, then resized down to fit here.

Cody White said:

Thank you all.

Now, I will tell you the truth on this one.

It was a snapshot, no planning or tripod used.
I even forgot to set the white balance.

Here is a copy of the original file that has been converted from .cr2 to .jpg, then resized down to fit here.

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Cody,

Did you make the previous color correction in RAW or did you first convert it to a jpg and then correct it?

Asher

I did it in raw,

Cody White said:

I did it in raw,

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Aren't you glad you shoot in Raw! I rarely shoot anything but Raw. It also allows to reprocess images with the latest Raw conversion technology.

Cheers,
Bart

I still have mixed feelings about shooting in raw, however to the most part I do like it better, just can't shoot as many burst as .jpg

That is a big ole green grasshopper not a cricket