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    This was a tiny jumper on the backside of a flower in my garden that was backlit. I was intrigued by the huge shadow. I was only able to get one before he hopped away.
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    A very cool shadow capture, Ian. I have to say that I'm not a big B&W fan, but others may like it a lot. I think the image would be stronger if you could blur some of the busy background elements - thereby placing more emphasis on the spider. :)

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    Ian, I like the shadow a lot but there's too much else going on around it. If you can keep the quality, a tighter crop, maybe with a vignette might look good.

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    Thanks, folks. I have it in color, but it was not particularly interesting to me and I liked the creepy B/W look. I also couldn't get rid of that darn green on top of the purple flower. I'll try a tighter crop and see how it goes.

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    Ian, this is what I was thinking of. Working with the full-sized original you should be able to get a decent image, even with the large crop.

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    Ken, thanks! I like that a lot. I'll go back to the original and play a bit.

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    Hey Ian,
    I agreed with the above comments on the BG.....so nice job by Ken showing you a possible direction to try! I do think you lost a bit of the shadow in the conversion on one of the legs.....so just keep that in mind when re-working the image.

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