Ladybirds in my garden

[matt b]

Finally had a chance to take my camera out of the kitchen ind into the garden and found lots of ladybirds. Please tell me what you think and feel free to be as harsh as you like.

ladybird5.1 by matt barton, on Flickr

ladybird4 by matt barton, on Flickr

ladybird3 by matt barton, on Flickr

ladybird2 by matt barton, on Flickr

ladybird1 by matt barton, on Flickr

Thanks for looking.
Matt

 

[winsnick]

Nice set, I have a lot of ladybirds too, more than usual even. I prefer #1 #4 and #5 for the composition. Good depth of field on all except maybe #3 where the head is out of focus. Compared to mine, taken with a 105mm, the ladybirds look really big. Did you crop or did you stick an extension tube on ?

 

[matt b]

Thank you and i feel the same about number 3. I used a Lumix G1 with a canon FD50mm 3.5 macro and the 25mm tube to give it a 1x1 ratio and on the G1 has a FOV of 100mm and no cropping.

 

[winsnick]

Thanks Matt. The more I look at #5 the more I like it!

 

[PetethePrimate]

#1 & #4 for me, love the front view & their expressions

 

[matt b]

Thank you