WEEKLY THEME: The Spider Comes to Creep on YOU

[LinzRiverBalmer]

HI All,

Sorry I've been gone this week, long story. I will get back on track this weekend.

A while after midnight after Halloween, but here is my image for this fun theme.....

This was taken as a full color taken in the middle of night, pitch black a couple months ago.

It's your basic very cool garden orb weaver.

So lucky I had my flashlight or I would have walked through her turning off a hose.

Literally she built her web in a matter of 4 hours, and it was 5 feet across, and gone the next day.

I took the image from its original, because I LOVED the web so much, and turned it black and white.

Then in PP I added back in selective color "autumn" in a trial program I had at the time.

Upped the saturation of that color, then output sharpen.

Macro, Handheld, Flash Fired Slow Synchro in the darkness.

I stayed close without any zoom, about 2 inches from the web.

I actually have about 50 images of her, very cooperative, I like these spiders.

This treatment just made it very spooky to me..... Creepy Crawly my Mother said.

[Diane Miller]

Great idea -- I like the treatment but wish the spider wasn't so close to the corner. Just a personal preference, though -- I like more breathing room around a subject than some people. I could also wish for a little more detail in the spider but your flash may have been strong enough to blow it out.

Great you got to shoot it, though! It's perfect for the theme.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Linz, this has a nice graphic, "cartoon" look to it and the subject is perfect for the theme

[Kerry Perkins]

Good one Liz, I love the colors and illustration style. I would also vote for a bit more space on top, but I love the notion of the spider crawling into the frame. Good job!

[Hazel Grant]

I like it in the corner, as if it is hiding and gonna getcha.....the treatment gives it an eery effect, enhanced by the scary thought that it is a real spider....ugh! Great treatment

[Nancy Bell]

Very well done. I like the contrast of the simple, repeating lines of the web vs. the wild, hairy look of the spider! I also like how the color creeps in from the bottom in blobs. Makes a great theme image!

[LinzRiverBalmer]

Thank you all sooo very much for the comments.

My apologies for being AWOL, I'm really trying to keep up.... DENTAL WORK.... Need I say more... ugh (plus packing for the Crane Festival)

The orange blobs are acutally rocks of my backyard.

Not sure why the spider got so black and lost some detail.... I think just my PP.

Original photos she had great detail, this being a night shot, turning it black and white and then reversing it to negative, lost some detail everywhere I think.

I was going more for the web itself, which just amaze me by this type of spider at how perfect they are.

[Anita Bower]

I especially like the composition and the colors--how they move from the spider through the image. I, too, wish the spider was a bit more into the image, but, not a big deal.