Alpine Skipper

[John Cooper]

Another dew-laden insect!! The location, an alpine sphagnum moss bog, is one of my favourite destinations. But I promise I'll make this my last dewy-insect posting ;)

Canon EOS 5, Canon 100mm macro, ISO 50, Natural back-light plus reflector, F22, Tripod.

[David Chauvin]

Cool shot, John. I do most of my shooting in the early morning and sometimes start to wish for non-dewy subjects. This is really nice with the rim lighting on the drops. My only nit is I wish the tips of the forward antenna was in the plane of focus, but it looks like you were already maxed out at f22.

[Fabs Forns]

Lovely bejeweled insect, you could actually count the drops!

[Gus Cobos]

Nice capture John, I like the sharp water droplets on the little guy...:cool:

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi John,
Don't make this the last one as they are so well done! I think the water droplets are what separate them from the ordinary and as the others above mentioned........you can count them! i see what David is saying about a bit of DOF falloof on the antenna..but you may be able to selectively sharpen a bit more. Very well composed!

[Robert Amoruso]

You guys have lots of dew there. :)

Like this one especially the clarity of the water droplets and the lighting.

[Mike Moats]

Hey John, another excellent dew laden critter. Nice details and good BG.

[Robert O'Toole]

Good work again John. The details and pose are fantastic really!

As a fine point I would warm the image up a but in PS but its good as is.

Robert

[Sharna Lee]

Wow! I've never seen one of these either. Very cool capture. Please don't make it your last.

Sharna