First Post - Speckled Bush Cricket

AndMan

My first post on the forums but I thought these may be worth it.

I was pruning the roses in my garden this afternoon when I caught sight of this beastie out of the corner of my eye. It took me a while to find him/her again after I got the camera (no DSLR but a DImage Z3).

The 1st shot is how I saw him and then the others are the macros that worked. These were shot with natural light and its pretty windy here today so every thing was moving quite a bit.








Some searching on the net gave me the id.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Peter

GOLDENORFE

WELCOME to the forum Peter.
good shots. nice.
try to not put the subject in the middle of the frame[very hard not to do] leave space for the bug to look into. ie on left of your bottem 2 shots.
keep posting
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Lord Vetinari

Lovely captures and welcome to the forum
Brian V.

Skippy

AndMan wrote:

My first post on the forums but I thought these may be worth it.

I was pruning the roses in my garden this afternoon when I caught sight of this beastie out of the corner of my eye. It took me a while to find him/her again after I got the camera (no DSLR but a DImage Z3).

The 1st shot is how I saw him and then the others are the macros that worked. These were shot with natural light and its pretty windy here today so every thing was moving quite a bit.

Some searching on the net gave me the id.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Peter

Hi Peter and Welcome to the Dgrin Forum
Not that I'm a Butt person, but that is quite an interesting Butt that Bug has

Your images look pretty sharp, I see Phil's already given you some good advice on centering.

Hope you enjoy the Forum, and don't be afraid to ask questions or ask for help from folks on the forum will you

Thanks for posting .... Skippy
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AndMan

GOLDENORFE wrote:

WELCOME to the forum Peter.
good shots. nice.
try to not put the subject in the middle of the frame[very hard not to do] leave space for the bug to look into. ie on left of your bottem 2 shots.
keep posting
phil
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Thanks Phil, I was trying to avoid the middle of the frame & had a couple where the framing was better, unfortunately 1/30 and a stiff breeze meant they were too blurred to be keepers.
Peter

AndMan

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Lovely captures and welcome to the forum
Brian V.

Thanks Brian.

Peter

AndMan

Skippy wrote:

Hi Peter and Welcome to the Dgrin Forum
Not that I'm a Butt person, but that is quite an interesting Butt that Bug has

Your images look pretty sharp, I see Phil's already given you some good advice on centering.

Hope you enjoy the Forum, and don't be afraid to ask questions or ask for help from folks on the forum will you

Thanks for posting .... Skippy
.

Hi Skippy

I did try for a head shot 'but' this little guy seemed quite shy and gave me the bums rush.

Peter