Oleander Wasp Caterpillar
Uploaded: November 02, 2002
Olympus C2040Z Macro mode
Piper Lehman November 02, 2002
Ouch! This guy looks fairly menacing. Can you shed some light on your technique here? Did you use a lightbox or just white card and an overexposure for the background? Nice job! #12123Cathy M. Gromball May 26, 2019
Awesome shot Loyce! I love your choice of white background.Cathy :) #20607
Loyce Hood May 26, 2019
Actually, this caterpillar was crawling on a white wall. There were hundreds of them on the wall where I work. They were also in the bushes. I didn't do anything special. I did use flash, the orginal came out with a light grey wall with droppings in places from the caterpillars. I lightened the wall back to original white color in PS using levels, and cloned out the droppings. Other than that, nothing special. I chose the wall, since the ones in the bushes were all under leaves, and it was raining at the time and very dark outside.Thank you both for your comments.
Loyce #20648
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