Ok, so if spiders aren’t your thing, click away and come back to visit another time.
I had been working this week with sepia tones and I thought that might work well with this week’s theme of creepy. The images I had been working on earlier in the week were mostly landscapes; images which could be but are not necessarily creepy.
A spider though? that’s creepy:
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This is a female Zebra Tarantula, common in Costa Rica. Actually, this is mostly just a leg shot. I was using my 50mm lens with a close up lens that actually looks more like a filter and screws onto my 50mm lens. I thought that would be a nice way to focus on the leg striping and hair.
In Photoshop to create this sepia effect, I made a black and white layer but I also created a hue and saturation layer. On the hue and saturation layer I clicked colorize and then moved the slider to the tone I wanted. I then duplicated that layer and made the tone on that layer a bit different. I put a mask on that layer and then masked some of the lower layer in. Combining the two layers like that was a technique that I had never tried before. I liked the outcome. In this case, I saved my cropping for last. I wasn’t really sure when I started how the sepia tone might affect my choice of what to crop. Here is the original image:
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So, what do you think? Do you prefer one image over the other? I like the edit, but I do like my nature shots to look natural, so I like the original color image as well. If I was to edit the original again and keep the color, I think I would pick a similar crop because I think the crop makes the image a lot stronger. Feel free to comment below.
Cheers!
