Grasshopper in my yard

zwalk

One of the first I've taken with my Nikkor 40mm f/2.8.

Any tips, I've been looking at quite a few of the shots on here such as that Acorn weevil I would love to achieve that much detail... Was that with a more closed aperture and flash?

Looks darker after the Flickr upload for whatever reason...




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Lord Vetinari

Good capture- slightly missed clean focus on the grasshopper's head/eyes. Guessing you had a fairly wide aperture and hence narrow DOF.
Yes the acorn weevil shots were with diffused flash with the camera in manual mode.
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Brian V.

zwalk

Awesome thanks Brian...your shots are amazing man i spent like an hour going through them. The depth of field definitely suffered in this pic, something I'll be avoiding in the future.


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zwalk

Closed up my aperture and got some better shots of another one.

Thanks for the tips man, I'll need to invest in a flash next


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