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golunvolo

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No mercy
« on: June 28, 2016, 13:46:16 »
Trapped in a spider web, still alive when I arrived. One of those images you found will working on something else. In the first one, they were struggling and both alive, seconds later, only one was moving. No chance. No mercy.
   Taken with d700 and 24-70 2.8 as it was all I have at hand at the time.
   

rosko

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Re: No mercy
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2016, 01:44:32 »
Great document !

Or how the biggest European Hymenoptera (here a Scoliid wasp, or mammoth wasp), can be killed by a 5 times smaller predator...

At least, this spider got food for a while ! ;)
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Randy Stout

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Re: No mercy
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2016, 02:37:03 »
It is an amazing thing, given the scale of the two, and what I would assume is a pretty nasty sting from the wasp.

On the top image, I would crop up from the bottom.  The large area out of focus area doesn't add much to the impact of the image.

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Randy

golunvolo

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Re: No mercy
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2016, 14:57:30 »
Thanks Rosko and Randy,

  It was a strong scene to witness.
  The first image was already heavily cropped but here is an square option. It does center the action -as a figure of speech and fisically-. I donĀ“t know if it will have use beyond the web because of the amount of informtaion left from the original file.

  Feel free to show your own version.

Randy Stout

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Re: No mercy
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2016, 16:40:03 »
The framing is about what I would have done.  I didn't know how much you had to work with in the original presentation. 

You might be able to tease a bit more detail out of the blacks.

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Randy