Shooting macro I get a lot of pictures out of focus / moved / under exposed / etc… I usually delete them, but once in a while I get one that I still like and I wonder if something can be done with it.
This is my attempt with darktable on this one:
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(Creative Commons, Attribution-ShareAlike) by me, Edgardo Hoszowski.
PS: my monitor is not calibrated, so I have no idea what colours you may see…
Nice photo. I tried to introduce some drama in the photo by an unusual size crop.
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Very nice crop!
Thanks @Edgardo_Hoszowski for the spider POV to mess with and all pip’s super versions.
Mine did come out similar to yours, a mix of drama and diffused light; milkier blacks and acidic greens. Velvia with a shift. First went into RPP, as photoflow kept crashing, then to PF and finally all gmic spit inside gimp =)
Very nice details, specially on the spider body. And it didn’t bring up the noise or the specular highlights. That’s one of the thing I find most difficult on high ISO shots, when I try to get some details I end up sharpening the noise.
Nice crop, I didn’t think of rotate it, it gives more tension to the scene.
I like this crop better than mine, now that I see it the right side is too busy and distracting. Too bad for the other spider…
Thanks!!
However, I decided to have another go at this using Photoflow this time, as I am learning it at the moment.
I wanted to try and bring out the spider’s web strands, so had to leave in the right-side of the picture this time 
