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Grasshopper on flower
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Grasshopper on flower

by Chris Boyd

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted August 3, 201782 views3 comments
I don't know if this creature wanted to eat the flower he landed on but I was lucky when he stayed there long enough for me to take a close up shot. Nikon E885 f/2.8 1/36sec ISO 100. Comments welcome.

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by Mark Seaver on August 4, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Chris, you got in quite close to this colorful scene.  The colors and shapes are very nice.  I'm thinking that you were in fact, to close for the camera's optics to be able to focus on the hopper, since the eyes of the hopper are not sharp, while the flower parts do look sharp.  Since this is a point and shoot camera, what you see in the viewfinder is not what is showing up in the picture in terms of the focus or at close distances like this even in terms of what the framing that you see in the viewfinder.  I'd suggest that you need to make some test pictures to figure out what the closest focus distance is and try to make sure that you're slightly further away than that distance when you shoot for maximum sharpness.
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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on August 5, 2017 at 12:43 PM
Hi  Chriscrying    Mark's  comment  could  not  be  better stated.    

Albert Darmo
Canada
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Comment posted by Ed Williams on August 6, 2017 at 9:50 PM
Love the colors Chris. Keep 'em coming.
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