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    Hand held, Canon 1DX Canon 180mm macro ISO 640 1/160 sec f10. Fill in flash -0.3
    My wife found the caterpillar crawling by the decking so I picked a piece of fuchsia (one of the foodplants) placed it in the plamp and used the lawn as a backdrop. In very quick time he devoured two leaves and one of the flowers! Once photographed I placed him on the lower branches of the fuchsia bush. Next day we found another by the pizza oven - no idea where it came from, it must have been quite a crawl!
    I had to do quite a bit of adjustment to saturation and luminosity to get the colours visually acceptable, the red contrasted very strongly with the green and the colours looked garish.
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    Sure sounds like this guy was hungry. Like the composition and the fuchsia plant. Nice light as well.

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    I like the story behind this one - and the image turned out great too! The colors look acceptable plus you have good light, sharpness, comp, and background. Very nicely done!

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