A natural appeture through a slit on a frame or between your fingers?

natural physics at its best. Your are to be commended on your perseverance!

They are both dynamic. I like the second shot as it shows the angle of the water flow. It also allows the eyes to see the foliage in context of the soft flow of nature.

The color shot draws the attention to the face of the squirrel, where the halftone draws the action of the environment. The human eye is very intent on greys and color. The eye of the subject is the most dynamic, besides the expression. I'd prefer the color because of the warmth you have captured in the animal.

Perhaps dirty contacts on the card, or worn contact connections. If neither the camera or computer can read it, it might be corrupted. Just some thoughts in trouble shooting.

Perhaps dirty contacts on the card, or worn contact connections. If neither the camera or computer can read it, it might be corrupted. Just some thoughts in trouble shooting.

Capture the momemt with multiple quick shots. Bugs do cooperate with thier environment.....you are then in their environment! If your camera has a spot focus, use that, but the bug's incredible heartbeat wants it to move quickly out of danger's way and into its food supply (they don't live long enought to see thier grandchildren...Ha!)

Auto focus is just that....automatic. Use the camera's multi shutter to capture the fleeting moment. A quick movement might make the "bug" stop in its tack, or just fly away! Your patience and sense of calm perseverance will grab the bug in it's track, after your first 20 frames!

Candid shots with bouce flash as needed

try to add the "www." to the string:

http://www.tv.adobe.com

I love this form of capturein nature. I would be interested in brightening the image and adding a bit of contrast. Perhaps some saturation adustment to pop the yellows and greens. Just a thought.

Jpeg is indeed compressible to be downsized for posting on the internet. Tiff (a tagged file format) holds its information where compressed Jpegs will pixelize as it gets smaller in resolution. Not sure if by transparent if you mean a water mark or floating over another picture without a white background. In PhotoShop you can cut out an image and paste it onto a transparent background for elements to be mixed or overlapped. Gifs are very low resolution and therefore good for the internet. Remember that the internet is RGB and not CMYK

I use PhotoShop CS5. If it is from PDF, it can be exported to JPG from Acrobat (full version)

I think all are right here. I prefer to bring a well-planned photo option at its most advantageous lighted optimum, and then I know I have the option to bring multiple camera setting options into PhotoShop to correct the least amount of issues. As a photographer and graphics specialist, I look for the filters that might appear in the advertisement I submit for greatest impact from the viewer. I also admire the pristine natural lighted version for a photo insert in a publication to give the "flavor" of the written article. If I need a stunning photo or landscape I don't have resident in my personal photo files, I go to istock.com and download a draft. Personal blasts from my personal library could be printed and hung on a wall showing to express my view of life. But family photos that circulate to private audiences are picked from several shots at an event to get the most precious pose and interactions (I don't really care for "Ponch Via" line up shots as they are not very reveiling or compimentary to the faces...I like candid shots with action). We can all relish in our concepts and capture, but must appreciate the skills of a portrait, industrial, landscape, journalistic, food display or hobby photographer....We are the documenters that future generations will admire or judge. Fire away your shutters as we all tell a beatiful story of our present culture!

The sun can become overbearing for frame exposure when you want to find detail in the shades. The camera takes the average of the total frame exposure and will conpromise other objects when it has gathered enough light.

I would use a ceiling directed (scrimmed) bounce flash that would help fill some details in the shaded areas. You can also set up a camera-side adjacent reflector screen that will reflect some of the intense sunlight and bounce light onto the foreground shaded areas.

Shade (on the object) and shadow (cast from the object on the outside surfaces) are typically handled differently for bounce lighting.

But not PhotoShop, etc. in the digital edit world. Different process. I've manipulated black and white in the darkroom.