2 insects and a lizard.

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I spent the weekend in France at my friends families gite. We had a great time and although I took all my gear along I didn;t take too many photos for myself. I mainly took shots of the gite to go on their site to help promote it as a business.

I did however do some macro work as they had a huge garden full of plants and insects. Two of which I thought I'd share.

No idea what they are so feel free to let me know :)

Loved the colours on this one, he was almost metallic looking!

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D2x, Sigma 105 Macro, 1/10 second at f11, ISO 400 (left my flash in the UK annoyingly so had to up the ISO)

This second one was collecting pollen which you can just make out on his legs in the low res version. He was climbing from flower to flower so I thought I'd try to capture his surroundings to show this. On some of the others I have of this fella he back looks like a mask when viewed upside down, very amusing!

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D2x, Sigma 105 Macro, 1/200 second at f5.6, ISO 200

There were also lizards (or Gekos?) everywhere. I took a fair few pics of them, this is one of the ones I liked the most as he head and front foot are sharp then his body and tail snake out of shot in the oof background. He was actually really small but the 200-400 is almost a macro lens it can focus so close (oh and this is a crop too).

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D2x, 200-400 VR handheld at 400mm, 1/400 second at f5, ISO 400

Thanks for looking :)
 
Hmm I going to do more that my usual, great pics (which they are).

#1 - Great colour all the different shades of green (hell for the colour blind) I think show off the insect to perfection.

#2 - I think you made the right decision pulling back and getting the surrounding makes it a very interesting picture rather than the close up.

#3 - Wonderful dof!! I can't say enough about this it is just a beautiful picture.
 
h.r.ford said:
#1 - Great colour all the different shades of green (hell for the colour blind)
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Speaking as someone who is partially red green colour blind.... Shades of green are no problem I see them all - except maybe the very dark ones then I might decide it was brown :)


I do like to see insect macros with the surroundings in to give context!

Mine are mostly held prisoner whilst being photographed :LOL:

That lizard shot is like a DOF demo and you got it spot on.
 
No3, it rocks the DoF is ace, nice, its like he is looking at me and almost climbing out my computer screen!
 
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