*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.05.11 ***

You guys make go out and try tonight 😄 It might be a spectacular night ...

Second one is my pick

Yes, I think Panasonic's capture is better since I exposed for the highlight and recovered all underexposed details. They are all converted from RAW files but it seems to me Q2 has less room for highlight reduction.

Thank you Daneland. I'm glad you like them.

Very nice light and compositions Vahur. I like them all.

This was tuff, there is no way you would shoot this shot with an electronic device, the spider was swiging by 2 strands and only the constant turn of the dial and continuous shooting made it a reasonable sucess, its not perfect shooting 400 images stacks with a spider swinging in the air, i could rock my whole studio by moving my chair. i have no vibrations but can rock it ever so slightly as my studio is 2 floors up and sitting on 6 350mm dia telegraph poles 😁

Personally I like these shots much more than most of your other spider shots because in these two very much more of the spider is not blurred.

I understand why other similar shots have much more of the spider blurred.

I think Topaz's Sharpen AI would improve it even more.

heading out tonight 😎

the only thing thats going to improve detail is a $10,000 objective 😁 my $100 ones are doing fine. i did buy a $200 used nikon that was suppose to be good, but put it in the bin. 😒

I suppose it depends on the type of improvement someone is after.

I played around with some color grading to one of the images I posted earlier to try to add some "drama" to the scene.

This is nice.
I know what you mean about those bloody cables, they spoiled many a shot for me in Thailand.

I think I'd have changed your shirt into a subtle blend of shimmering pink, purple and teal, you'd have virtually disappeared.

These are extraordinary. I have no patience for macro work. Imagine being confronted with a human-sized version of that thing.

i shoot all day to get 6 good images, some days i get nothing, depends how happy the spiders are, these ones are great, they runaround then make a web and hang there for hours, i can even shoot them with no glass cube , i was shooting a bug the other day and only just found out they are very deadly, lucky i have them caged in glass 😁

The trick is to try and put those wires to good compositional use, as you did in the second shot.

I have the same, problem in Italy with crazy wiring. Gabriel Basilico, a famous photographer here, was a master of making good use of them.

Your spider shots are amazing as usual.

Very cinematic, great combination of natural and artificial light.