Thread: Editing Help?

You could press them between glass to decrease the movement and depth of field.

Are they Orb spiders?

Originally Posted by Slunnie

You could press them between glass to decrease the movement and depth of field.

Are they Orb spiders?

Lol...

All the (serious) image processing I have done before has been in MATLAB. I was hoping some of the photoshop gurus would chime in... The images are just cropped from the main photo - nothing more at this stage.

I think they are too small to be orb spiders???

I like the cat's face in the dark one...

I doubt any PP will improve these.

Manual focus or auto? Try manual on a monopod or even better a tripod with one leg folded up, physically move the camera back & forth rather than using the lense focus ring.

But first.. The aperture depends on the depth of field you want i.e just spider's head, whole of spider plus a few drops etc. Download a DOF calculator & work out the lense to subject distance, DOF, & aperture relationship.

Then you'll get a much sharper pic I'm sure, that you can tweak in PP.

Regards
Max P

More light or higher ISO, then DoF as others have suggested.

Online Depth of Field Calculator

Use the Unsharp mask in PS.

Cheers.

sharpen x2

adjusted contrast and brightness. I think that each image needs it's own individual adjustments, here the same has been applied to both although I concentrated on the one on the left.



Arthur (chucaro) who does a lot of flora suggested that contrast always help make the image pop a bit and sharpening can help. I am no wiz, I just ran CS6 Beta over it.

Other things to try would be to change the background to black, that makes the colours appear more intense.

Originally Posted by slug_burner

sharpen x2

adjusted contrast and brightness. I think that each image needs it's own individual adjustments, here the same has been applied to both although I concentrated on the one on the left.



Arthur (chucaro) who does a lot of flora suggested that contrast always help make the image pop a bit and sharpening can help. I am no wiz, I just ran CS6 Beta over it.

Other things to try would be to change the background to black, that makes the colours appear more intense.

Thanks - that was exactly what I was looking for! I will give that a try.

more to the point though and as suggested I would say put your camera on a tripod and use the timer so you dont touch the unit when photo is taken.. that way you will get better sharpness which means less PP.

Originally Posted by dullbird

more to the point though and as suggested I would say put your camera on a tripod and use the timer so you dont touch the unit when photo is taken.. that way you will get better sharpness which means less PP.

Thanks. However I needed to take photos at specific time points to capture specific occurances (sorry if that is vague - I can say more when the publication is accepted).

Static focus or a tripod/monopod would be no use as I needed to continually reposition and refocus.

The events are not easily reproducible, so what I was looking for is how I can best polish these (and similar) images, moreso than how I can take better images next time (though such comments are appreciated).