I haven't decided whether I prefer this or a version in which almost everything is cropped out except the moth and flower it is on.
What's your preference, please?
Thanks very much.
Pentax K100D, Pentax 100mm macro lens, handheld
Hi Stuart, you've got a difficult scene to crop here. I think the image you present here does most right to the flowers, but is a little unbalanced by the placement of the moth. A tighter crop gives the opposite effect: a nice placement of the moth, but much cut-off flower. After a few tries, I came up with this one. Also did a levels adjustment and added canvas to top and right to give the flower some more room. See what you think of it.
hi Stuart - agree with the above comments - You did not mention shutter speed and aperture. On my screen this looks a little soft - could be because of a low shutter speed at a small aperture or not enough DOF.
IMHO!!! Handheld macro with enough DOF is challenging - i find that in order to do this I need to be around 3200ISO depending on the light conditions of course.
Jerry's repost does improve - however I still struggle to make out exactly what the point of interest is - is it the Moth or the Flowers? I assume it is supposed to be the moth - however not realy seeing enough detail in the Moth to hold my attention - also partly due to the crop.
Bottom line is getting closer for a tighter image of the bug, making sure to illustrate what is important. Sometimes with the 100 is tough, more often than not I go to the 180 with a 1.4X converter !! ... and do crank up the ISO if hand holding !!!!
Hi Stuart,
I too agree on getting a tighter crop, to zero in on the main flower and the moth. The repost does improve the clarity of the image. Would like to see the EXIF data in order to have a better idea of what transpired...looking forward to the next one...:cool:
Thanks very much, everyone, for your comments, questions, and suggestions — including repostings in which work was done on the image.
Here's additional information: 1/350, aperture priority, center-weighted averaging, 200 ISO;
aperture not recorded.
All best wishes,
Stu
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