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Web and Dragon

Postby phillipb on Sun Apr 20, 2008 10:45 am

From this morning in between showers.

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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby Alpha_7 on Sun Apr 20, 2008 11:51 pm

Gorgeous Phillip, I can't believe you haven't got a comment, the dew is like diamonds! Beeeautiful!
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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby DebT on Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:44 am

Absolutely love the web you have everything just right to catch the drops and the reflections in them and the b/w works really well.
Personally I'd try cropping out the bottom 1/3 as I find the pale background detracts from the web and I/m tring to work out what is in the background - or is that the dragon ?
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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby phillipb on Mon Apr 21, 2008 9:31 am

DebT wrote:Absolutely love the web you have everything just right to catch the drops and the reflections in them and the b/w works really well.
Personally I'd try cropping out the bottom 1/3 as I find the pale background detracts from the web and I/m tring to work out what is in the background - or is that the dragon ?
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Yep, that's the dragon, I played with different DoF but I didn't want the kimono dragon too clear because it would be very obvious that it's fake. That's also the reason for the B&W conversion because it's made out of wood so it's the wrong colour. The web is real though. :D
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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby Pehpsi on Mon Apr 21, 2008 6:47 pm

Lovin' the b&w conversion :)
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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby DebT on Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:48 pm

Thanks Phil,
so do you have many photos of real dragons?
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Re: Web and Dragon

Postby phillipb on Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:56 pm

Kimono dragons are real enough, just not the one in my backyard :D
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