Tight crop of whole plant and found a resident

[iwatkins]

Hi All,

Critique welcome as always.

I was taking some snaps of the new plants in our newly rebuilt garden to email to my parents (keen gardeners) and while post processing this one found a resident which when the full image was cropped down produced the picture below.

Cheers

Ian

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~iwatkins/Gallery/resident.jpg

[henkbos]

Ian,

There are quite a few things that can be improved here:
- the picture is very dull. It needs more brightness and contrast
- the main subject does not show any details. You might be able to dodge a little
- the picture is not in focus. Guess there was a little camera shake. Try to use a tripod next time.

Keep shooting!

[mpaul73]

henkbos wrote:
Ian,

There are quite a few things that can be improved here:
- the picture is very dull. It needs more brightness and contrast
- the main subject does not show any details. You might be able to dodge a little
- the picture is not in focus. Guess there was a little camera shake. Try to use a tripod next time.

Keep shooting!

also I would add...

There is a muddled message here. Is the point of the photo the plants or is it the bug? I think there is a conflict here!

regards
Martin.

[iwatkins]

No camera shake, just a very narrow depth of field. Maybe a tripod and stop it down to f22 or similar to get the whole plant in focus.

The full shot actually covers the whole plant it was just while processing that I noticed the bug and that was the point.

The picture doesn't appear dull on my monitor but maybe that is a monitor calibration issue ? Must look into that.

Thanks for the comments.

Cheers

Ian