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Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

This was a morning that the spider built a web. Shortly after, the spider freshly packaged the prey. I never say a freshly webbed prey. She was just finishing wrapping.

Specific Feedback

The light was harsh and I am not sure the best crop for this image. Suggestions welcome.

Technical Details

R7 rf 100 f/2.8 1/160 f/10 iso 1600

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Hi Dean. This is really nice. I could see a much tighter crop if you have the pixels. I don’t think the full web is needed-just enough to let the viewer know what’s going on.

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Nice prey he/she captured!
I agree a tighter crop would place more emphasis on the future meal.

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Dean, I agree with the others on a tighter crop, which would remove the brighter spots that on the edges of the image. Nice find and capture.

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Thanks for the help, @Sandy_Richards-Brown , @Dennis_Plank , and @Shirley_Freeman. I went with a 1:1 crop just shifted a bit to the right. There was blue clipping which I fixed in LRC selecting the background and desaturating it. The second mask was on the object with some more tweaks.

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I like the repost, Dean. A lotmore presence in the subject and still plenty of web to convey the situation.

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Yes, I like the repost. Well done.