walking on the moon

in my defense, this is not selective colouring... i played with the sliders in lightroom to remove the warmth and decreased the blue and green... i was trying to emulate an effect i got with one of the filters in colour efex but wasn't quite right...

anyhooo... today was a stat holiday in Canada so mostly lazed about, went for a couple bike rides, tried a bit of geocaching, and crawled around the backyard in search of bugs... these red spider thingies are TINY... we're talking smaller-than-a-grain-of-sand tiny...

[❀ Lynn]

Are these 'red mites'? Very tiny indeed and I love the textures.

[☠northy]

@lynnb they could be... never heard of them before.... just googled and the colour and "glisten" effect look right... the size in some of the photos looks wrong, but in others, dead on...

[❀ Lynn]

@northy It's an awesome shot!

[Simply Amanda]

Ooooh great find, shot and selective coloring effect with your processing. I like it.

[Maggiemae]

I think I had one on a flower today and it was as small as the point of a needle! Zoomed all over the place. This is tremendous focus!

[Karen H]

Very macro

[KWind]

Wonderful macro! He/she really pops! Wasn't the holiday a nice thing! We had a lazy day too. The kids had a pro-d day on Friday so we actually had a four day weekend. I'm not looking forward to Tuesday reality!!

[Kerri]

Awesome

[Abhijit]

super cool. SC or not, i like it regardless. SC is not a bad technique. Agree it doesn't work in every case but when it works, it really works

[Felicity]

I like it! the sharp slope makes it extra dramatic

[beachradish]

Sounds like a full day! Cool that it's not selective coloring ... wicked effect!

[Taffy]

Looks like a moon walk with an alien at the center, doing the walking!

[Rosie White-Hlouveraki]

Wow, that's a real tight on focus, those things are almost microscopic. Great shot!

[Simon]

Just as Rosie said, great shot Northy

[Jocasta]

great macro - for such a tiny little mite

[Penny Price]

Well captured. Love the POV and DOF.

[Frida]

Fabulous focus northy! and the processing is spot on! Soory haven't commented lately have been saving you to comment 'properly' and now the internet packed it up :) will persevere though :)

[Sharyn's Shots シ]

Ewwww, tiny critters that can barely be seen are worse than those you can see clearly. Great pov and dof.

[Sue]

Sounds like a a busy day ... your focus is amazing!

[Paula]

Tiny red lunar spider freaks me out!

[Adam]

Fantastic Northy.

[Muse]

Wow, very nice capture and details!

[Jase]

Well, ok, if you say it not SC ;)

[Lisa Pouncy]

I took some shots of these tiny little fellas the other afternoon.Love the non-SC SC you've achieved xx

[Kitti Nelson]

Astounding fine focus and superb effect with the tone and texture highlighted so well by the slider effect

[Humphrey Hippo]

Fantastic focus - and I love the title. :)

[Janna Dawn Goldrup]

Awesome. I love those little things...and that it is so easy to do SC in LR!

[April Milani]

The fact that you are saying this is NOT selective colouring makes me love you even more

[Laura J.]

So little red guys do exist!
Awesome.

[MaryBeth Dailey]

I think it is a chigger. But did not know you had chiggers up there! I have shot some chiggers...one was in that photo of the clover for "Widdershins" Mad Minute...the chigger was on the clover stalk, but those photos had muted color tones..so it did not stand out. I have been meaning to take another chigger pic, but not sure I can do as well as this. Don't get one get under your skin! They are hard to get rid of and itchy! FAV

[MaryBeth Dailey]

Terrific viewed large!

[MaryBeth Dailey]

What lens did you use?

[☠northy]

hmmm... Lynn had guessed red mite, and based on googled images, i think she was right... but chiggers look an awful lot the same... eek! sure hope not!

i used my macro lens... it's the canon EF100mm f/2.8L and it is quite a treat to use :)

[Johanna]

Eek, whatever it is. :D