Bug on a rose.

hillwalkinggirl · 12 Aug 2011

I was out in the garden looking for a flower to photograph . I chose this rose but remembering to tidy it up first I went to remove a bit of green leaf. It was then that I realized that the green leaf was this nice little bug enjoying his dinner. It was a very windy day so unfortunately I could not get the focus sharp on his eyes as the rose kept moving in the wind. I wasn't sure whether to clone out the blue thing at the left but thought it added a nice bit of colour. What do you think?

bug on rose. by hillwalkinggirl, on Flickr

ChrisA · 12 Aug 2011

I think you've captured it well. However the colours are very oversaturated.

hillwalkinggirl · 12 Aug 2011

ChrisA said:
I think you've captured it well. However the colours are very oversaturated.

Yes I agree Chris. It seemed OK when I did it, but looking at it now I'm going to go back to the RAW file and cool it down a bit.

hillwalkinggirl · 13 Aug 2011

I've been trawling the net to try to find out what this bug is. Does anyone know please?

loclnor · 13 Aug 2011

Think it's a cricket

Tucker · 13 Aug 2011

It's a female speckled bush cricket! Pull back on the saturation though

Adam69 · 14 Aug 2011

It's a lovely colourful image and I think you've done well considering the wind, I agree with Chris re oversats, for me I would clone out the little dot but I,m a bit OCDish about these things and it doesn't detract me from the nice image.

hillwalkinggirl · 14 Aug 2011

Thank you all for your comments and thank you George and Lorraine for the ID. I have tried another edit with lower saturation. It does look a little dull to me now, but maybe that's after comparison with the oversat one. What do you think?

Female speckled bush cricket. by hillwalkinggirl, on Flickr

mac124 · 14 Aug 2011

Had one of these in the green house a few weeks ago, wondered what it was, mine had all its legs though, seems yours has lost one of its rear legs

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Nice pic and the second edit is certainly easier on the eyes

IGADIZ · 14 Aug 2011

Good effort, wonderful colour combination, maybe slightly oversaturated. Pity you didn't nail the eyes, did you take more shots? Perhaps lowering the camera to be level with the insect?

Adam69 · 15 Aug 2011

The edit is much better great work.

hillwalkinggirl · 15 Aug 2011

mac124 said:
Had one of these in the green house a few weeks ago, wondered what it was, mine had all its legs though, seems yours has lost one of its rear legs .
Nice pic and the second edit is certainly easier on the eyes

Probably lost it when I thought it was a leaf and tidied it up.:bang: :LOL:

IGADIZ said:
Good effort, wonderful colour combination, maybe slightly oversaturated. Pity you didn't nail the eyes, did you take more shots? Perhaps lowering the camera to be level with the insect?

No unfortunately it pelted down with rain and I didn't want to get my camera wet.

Adam69 said:
The edit is much better great work.

Thank you Mac, Igadiz and Adam for your comments.