1 little 2 little 3 little spiders

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1 little 2 little 3 little spiders

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sitting on the wall with flies inside em....

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10D + macro lens at or close to 1:1
Pop up flash with jiffy bag diffuser
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I really like #2, but it looks a lot better on my too-bright software development monitor than it does on my regular photo monitor.

On the photo monitor, the spider is so dark that I miss a lot of detail unless I specifically go looking for it.

A bit of curves adjustment might make this image work better on a wide range of monitors. Let me know if you'd like me to post a modified version to show you what I mean.

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BTW, not to nag, but these images are larger than posting guidelines. At this moment the spider is 900 x 605 pixels, and 426KB.

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Ah sorry about that Rik, I changed the reseize scale on photobucket for a particular shot and forgpt to reset it to my usual 800x600.

Re the brightness, I know what you mean. When viewed on this laptop it appears quite bright,but when viewed on my phone,which always gives a more faithful rendition(also sharper than the laptop) it looks dar like you say! I do have Levels adjustment but as you say theres a discrepancy between monitors and one has to be acreful not to over compensate.
I see that the white in the last pic looks burnt out on my phone but fine on here!
Canon 5D and 30D | Canon IXUS 265HS | Cosina 100mm f3.5 macro | EF 75-300 f4.5-5.6 USM III | EF 50 f1.8 II | Slik 88 tripod | Apex Practicioner monocular microscope

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