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[pecunium]

This is the dramatic image, I took it yesterday morning.



This is half of a study in treatment



This is the other half. The only thing I really had to do differently in the two versions (once I'd done the filtering to B&W, was to dodge the large flat rock in the upper right. In color it's fine, but in B&W it was too hot.



This it the tricky one (as opposed to the dramatic shot at the top). Getting the bee was easy. She just flew about, and I snapped the shutter. She was in focus, and I had the picture.

The salamander had to be seen, and then I had to work around to get rid of the reflections (even if I'd had the polarising filter with me, there wasn't enough light to make up for the 2-stop loss polarising filters cause). I wish the flash hadn't been in Maia's bag, half a mile up the trail from me.

Comments

[supermouse.livejournal.com]

On a day like today, pictures like the above are very cheering.

I think the composition on the bee picture is nice. The flowers lead you to the bee and, even though the bee is facing out of the photograph, the bee's wing leads the eye nicely back to the flowers again, keeping you in the shot. If this is an accident, it's a very happy one.