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9th June 2011, 11:00 AM #1
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9th June 2011, 11:43 AM #2
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Nice work, Jim. The composition is good, even the use of color is very nice. You can still probably darken the background a little bit for more contrast but that's just my personal preference. A bit noisy but probably this is a tight crop from the actual shot. I like it.
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9th June 2011, 11:52 AM #3
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Very nice jim. Great colors in this one. Is that the canon 180?
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9th June 2011, 12:33 PM #4
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Willie,thanks for the critique.
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9th June 2011, 12:35 PM #5
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Thanks,Steve.Yes,Canon 180.
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9th June 2011, 12:37 PM #6
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Apologies, Jim. I think it's not noise that I am seeing in the flower areas but the actual texture itself. It's hard to look at images using only one eye (I still have the infection on my right eye).
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9th June 2011, 12:47 PM #7
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No problem.You had me looking though.
Didn't know you had an eye infection.Hoping you heal quickly.
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9th June 2011, 01:40 PM #8
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Beautiful colors in the Nymph, Jim. Because I rarely get to see insects up close (other than on CiC), I am amazed by the color, texture, and patterns on some of the subjects. I'm never quite sure if that is how they actually look or has some artistic license been employed. I gotta get me one of those Nymphs to play with!
How big is a nymph? Is there any chance of getting a shot that close without a macro lens?
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9th June 2011, 02:10 PM #9
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Frank,
The is exactly how the nymph looks. I got to work with one last week, and it really was fun. Jim was actually the one who identified it for me as I thought it was some species of cricket.
The one I found was maybe 7-10mm in length (excluding antennae), so pretty tiny. The one I had was very calm and I was actually able to gently pick it up and relocate it a couple times without it freaking out - it just walked onto and off of my hand with little coaxing. Much more agreeable than the adult katydids which are notoriously nasty.
Probably unlikely to get a shot that close without a macro. The two shots I shared on my thread were taken at minimum focusing distance of my 100mm macro (0.29m) and so are 1:1 magnification (and the first one was cropped pretty heavily by chopping off the two sides to create a vertical format from a horizontal shot). From the looks of it, if Jim's specimen is the same general size as the one I had, his is also at the 1:1 size. With another non-macro lens, you're likely to get magnification rations closers to something like 1:3 or higher, so figure it would reduce the size of the nymph drastically.
Great shot, Jim! (and thanks again for the ID)
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