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Found this little harvestman on a cool fall day and transferred it to the front steps so I could get some photos. Because it was chilled, it sat fairly still while I got the macro lens quite close. Eventually, it did warm enough to find some nice leaf litter to hide in.
The shadow was entirely deliberate and I love it because of the extra presence it gives to such a small creature. Glad I found it when I did because the other garage blocks the sun later in the afternoons.
It isn’t a spider because it has a unified body instead of a head and abdomen arrangement, but it is an arachnid in the Opiliones order. It’s about 1 inch wide with those longest legs.
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It is contrasty, so I played it up by dialing in a little more. Also angled the crop on more of a diagonal than it was shot. Does that work for you?
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Lr for all editing including a crop, local & global adjustments for contrast, color panel to boost saturation in oranges and yellows and reduce it in the blue channel, sharpening & texture too.
. Good on you for conceiving and setting this up. The diagonal orientation of the critter and shadow is really well done and thanks for the anatomy lesson too. Top notch result. >=))>