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Published: 2012-09-30 16:53:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 836; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 0
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Apparently summer days are fading away ...Thanks for viewing!
Thanks to for featuring it in [link]
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Love this is little drops around!! So beautiful shot!!
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Appreciate your sweet comment, dearest Nataly!
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Thank you so much, dear Jocelyne!
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Wow, this is gorgeous! I love how crisp the photo is
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Thank you so much, dear Rebecca!
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You are very welcome!
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Hi there! You're beautiful work has been featured in my journal this week 
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You're very welcome!
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your so welcome
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Many thanks, dear Sheri!
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Your welcome...it is very lovely.
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do you have the nagging feeling this image could look better, a feeling you usually don't have with your other work ?
try lowering the contrast so there are details in both highlights and shadows,
and then adjust the brightness.
good subject, composition.
hope this helps.
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Thank you so much for your input. dear J.B. Yeah, the sunlight at the moment was stronger than I'd like, hence the overall contrast became less than desirable. That was the price I paid to achieve the sharp focus of the water drops on the filaments. I've tried to lower the contrast, but the improvement seemed negligible.
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Much better than before, i think.
have a very good day.
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when you photograph something shiny and/or wet or that has lots of reflections, you should try using the polarizing filter on your lens.
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a very bright sun does not increase contrast compared to when the sun is lower (and thus weaker);
it only changes the brightness of the sunlight; the way to compensate for that is by exposing less.
with digital, as with photo slides, one must always expose for good detail in the highlights,
never for the shadows.
if you had exposed less, to compensate for the bright sun, then you would have had to close down
the lens more, and thus you would have gained in DOF, exactly what you say you wanted (for focusing on the drops).
would you mind sending me your full size image so i can have a better look and see if something good can be made from it?
if so, then i could send you back the corrected image with layers in photoshop format so you could duplicate yourself
what i've done and thus learn something new and helpful.
(Gellidius at gmail.com)
if you'd like to use what's best for metering, you should think about buying a Sekonic incident light meter.
this is used by pros in photography and cinema, and is very easy to learn and works with precision.
if you decide to buy one, get the cheapest analog that will fill your needs.
on the Sekonic site, they explain how to use those meter.
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OMG, this is soooooo cute and touching! Thank you so much, dear Gigi!
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