my first attempt at bugs

matasamatasa Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
edited February 13, 2008 in Holy Macro
Critique is appreciated

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  • sunitasunita Registered Users Posts: 210 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2008
    Nice series! I esp. like the first two.
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited February 12, 2008
    Amazing! What's going on with the eye of the critter in #1 & 2????
    Looks like a drop of blood on the eye! Obviously not, but that's what it looks like. Great focus Nino!
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2008
    Good shots :)
    Couple of points - for composition it's always good to give the bug more headroom in the direction it is looking - this then tends to take the bug off centre
    If possible always try to get the eye in clean focus - just like with humans it's normnally the first thing we look at in a photo.

    #1 is not showing for me but #2 is a signal fly probably Sepsis fulgens

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  • matasamatasa Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2008
    Thanks all for your nice comments:)

    I find extremely hard to focus on bags, as whey don’t stay still for more than 2 seconds and personally I have terrible handshakene_nau.gif
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2008
    matasa wrote:
    Critique is appreciated


    Hi there Matasa, your not wrong when you say it is hard to shoot bugs.
    Most do not sit still for longer than a couple of seconds.

    It's almost a game you have to play watching how they move.

    Bee's, even though they move, are pretty good target,
    as they will feed for longer if they find something worth staying for.

    In your second bug shot, it looks like you may have also captured
    a few little eggs (maybe from some other insect) on the under part of the plant, right near the left front back leg.

    I had trouble hand holding myself, but now I know that if I keep my ISO up to 200 and use an external flash and choose a setting between F8-F14,
    you will usually get a very good result.

    Your doing fine matasa thumb.gif .... Skippy :D
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  • matasamatasa Registered Users Posts: 170 Major grins
    edited February 13, 2008
    Thanks Skippy for your encouragement and nice comments
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