first of all, you guys are under the guise (what a pun...or something) that first "crab1" I posted was the original...far from it. In the original one, the crab was blown out because the shell is reflective and he was sitting at the PERFECT angle to reflect the sunlight:
so needless to say, a considerable amount of editing went into both versions. I may have been overzealous in the contrast/saturation of the second one, but on the first one the legs have very unnatural looking shadows and outlines (you probably can't see them in the condensed version here) that piss me off big time. So I might tone down the second one, or do a new one, but I will not use the first.
Thanks for the imput, keep it coming