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53	Jun 22	Comment	Oooo! You combined 3 of my favorite photo genres - floral, macro, & monochrome. A lovely image, executed well. I think Miriam produced the results I would have suggested quite well.	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Comment	Great find, Brian! I think you chose a good angle for this capture, which emphasizes the subject and helps to tell a good story. I went a little darker with the background and brighter with the "creature." Thoughts?	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Comment	Love it! This wildlife image has a nice story and is photographed well. My only suggestion would be to add a bit more space to the right for the family to travel into. Thoughts?	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Comment	I was immediately drawn to this image. There's lots to see - perhaps too much in a sense. The part that doesn't work for me is the ceiling, so I masked that out in this version. Thoughts?	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Reply	Here's just the mirror ball, masked out in Affinity Photo.	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Comment	Love the contrast between the face of the horse and the light wood. It's always great to have a clear view of an eye, which helps us content with the subject. Because the eye is so important, I feel it needs more prominence in the image. Miriam improved upon it, but the square crop still didn't give the eye the impact, so I tried a vertical crop. Thoughts?	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Comment	Love the colors and movement - it's as though you "froze" the movement of water. Oh wait! Nature did that for you! d;¬{D There's a natural leading line from the top right and then the eye naturally studies the glow in the middle right. Which version of On1 are you using, 2022.5? I'm known for playing around with images and couldn't resist doing so with yours. Here's a version with it flipped vertically - it reminds me of a wave:	Jun 19th
53	Jun 22	Reply	Hmmm. How did you go about choosing the leaves?	Jun 19th
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95	Jun 22	Comment	Congrats on the win! Certainly dreamy and very soothing to view. From a macro perspective, though, the 2 most important aspects - eyes and wings - are pretty soft due to the large aperture. You had to be fairly close with a 60mm lens, and that would have been a bit nerve-wracking for me - I was stung as a young child and have a instinctive fear of bees.	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Comment	It's a pretty flower as is in the original shot. Because the focus is soft on much of the center of the flower, though, it disappoints as a macro shot. A smaller aperture would have gone a long way to bringing more into focus. I'm assuming you captured this handheld. Another thing to keep in mind when photographing for macro is the plane of your subject. Had the flower's center been parallel to the camera's sensor, you likely would have had most in focus, even with a larger aperture like you were using.	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Reply	Definitely.	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Reply	It was on a 0 gauge pin, which I removed in post. Because it was so dry, it was pretty much floating on the pin, so almost impossible to fine-tune the position.	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Comment	I agree with Stuart. I especially like seeing some of the web in focus which tells more of the story. I always admire handheld macro as I can't do it for the most part - too much hand shake. The yellow area is a focus puller and choosing an angle that kept that out of view would have been much better, or changing it's color in post so that it doesn't distract, something like this:	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Comment	The wings are definitely the thing in this image. Monochrome is very appropriate here as it removes the distraction of colors. My only issue is the noise, which is to be expected at ISO 5000. I ran it through Topaz Denoise AI, then added a titch of clarity in Affinity Photo. Thoughts?	Jun 20th
95	Jun 22	Reply	That's not an arm in front of its face, but one of its antanae. Yes, a different position would have been better, but it had become so dry it was difficult to angle it better.	Jun 19th
95	Jun 22	Comment	Good for you, Bernie! Looks like you achieved the 1:1 capture we all strive for. I think the only way you could have improved this would have been to do a stack so that you could get more of the strands in focus, but that's an advanced technique you can build up to over time. You got enough in focus to show us the world that we cannot see with the naked eye! You did run into one of the difficult aspects of macro photography - lighting. With a 40mm lens, you don't have much room between the lens and your subject, which makes for a difficult lighting situation, especially in the field. You really need to add light from off-camera to give these tiny subjects more punch.	Jun 19th
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