Fiddler Crab

[Myer Bornstein]

Taken today at the Wellfleet Audubon Sanctuary on Cape Cod with my Macro lens sigma 150-500 Nikon D300s PS adjusted and cropped
150-500mm @ 500mm
750mm (in 35mm film)
1/1600 sec, f/8
Mode: Manual
Metering: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
AF mode: AF-C
White balance: AUTO

[Julie Kenward]

Myer, although the crab is as cute as can be and you managed to get an excellent pose, the light seems extremely harsh. Did you try to lighten/soften the image at all? I also wonder if I different position would have managed to get you an image without the harsh shadows across the crab's body?

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Myer,
Agree with Jules regarding the light harshness. You may want to try a reverse s-curve to lessen the contrast first.....B4 doing the other pp'ing and see if that helps. Selectively lightening the crab may also work. Nice pose and comp.

[Myer Bornstein]

Jules, Roman
Thanks. it was 12 noon on a clear sunny day and I was on a boardwalk which did not give me much options, most of the crabs when they saw or senses you, ran into their holes. This one at least posed for me. I will try to lessen the contrast and see what happens

[thijs broekkamp]

Nice pose of the crab, but indeed the light harshness is not good. Also it's not standing out of the background, maybe a lower level would have helped.