Jean-Massry
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Jean-Massry
February 01, 2018
Thank you guys for stopping by and for nice comments. But how do you see my photo is Top Class? I didn't get any notification from ViewBug, did it appear on a specific front page or something?
jasti2001
June 29, 2018
I don't get notifications either you won't get notifications in your tab but you will find if you go to each photo and look under Awards underneath the awards you will find if your photo made it into the top class or not that's the only way of checking
Jean-Massry
June 29, 2018
Thank you Jasti. I don't think so, it's not the way to find out. Anyway sometime i have photos get many likes in 1 day without being classed, or even classed but long time ago and suddenly people find it.
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Location
At a park, on a sunny day after the rain, March 16 2013Time
1:16 pmLighting
Together with the sunlight I used my speedlight as well.Equipment
Canon EOS 50D, Canon 100mm Macro lens, Hand held, Canon 580 EX-II flash.Inspiration
My favourite place to go out for shooting macro (insects) is the park. But sometimes it is nice to think outside the box and shoot simple macro in nature. So I go around look for those small things and you always find something interesting out there.Editing
Normalize the exposure in Camera RAW and Leveling up highlights in Photoshop with gradient mask to apply the levels on part of the photo only. And finally rotating about 1 degree to have the "what so looks like 2 eyes of the flower" horizontal. Note the 2 large dew on the magenta colour shaping like eyes, with clear Iris and Pupil and in addition the catch-light from the flash, thus I titled it "Look Me In The Eyes".In my camera bag
Since I took this photo till today I have acquired more equipment, here is what I have: Canon EOS 6D Samyang (Rokinon) 12mm fisheye Tamron 24-70, Tamron 70-200, Canon EF 50mm 1.8 (1st Generation) Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Backup Canon EOS 50D Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USMFeedback
A good chance to find something like this or similar idea is to go out on unusual day, where there is something unusual happening quickly (rain / sun) and you might find something unusual. Of course in terms of nature this is normal, but searching and finding it and bringing it to our eyes is something to appreciate.