A more mature speckled bush cricket

I havent seen my little mates, the baby speckled bush crickets for a little while now until yesterday. This one is much bigger now - I guess they have been hiding away moulting

Taken with my 60mm and not cropped.

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Linda

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Bill Pham wrote in post #3540072
wow nice. how you manage to get everything in focus. i can't seem to do that. only part of the insect and nothing else.

Bill

Thanks Bill, very kind of you.

Re the focus, well I havent got all of the cricket in the pic, the end of the back legs and the tips of the antena are missing, but if I had got them in the whole photo, they would not have been in focus. It very much depends on how big the insect is and how much you get in the frame. Plus of course, I mostly use my 60mm macro which I find much better with regard to that, than my 100mm macro funnily enough (I just find I work much better with the 60mm for some reason).

I almost always use F11, which is a good all-rounder I have found, but if you take a look at my weevil shots that I have just uploaded, not all of the body is completely in focus because it was a bit larger than the cricket. Hope that throws some light on it for you

Linda

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skylab wrote in post #3540132
Super shot Linda, well done.
Nice detail.

thanks Brian, very kind of you

Linda

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Macro: 100mm F2.8L IS|100mm| F2.8 |60mm F2.8.

LindaB wrote in post #3540131
Thanks Bill, very kind of you.

Re the focus, well I havent got all of the cricket in the pic, the end of the back legs and the tips of the antena are missing, but if I had got them in the whole photo, they would not have been in focus. It very much depends on how big the insect is and how much you get in the frame. Plus of course, I mostly use my 60mm macro which I find much better with regard to that, than my 100mm macro funnily enough (I just find I work much better with the 60mm for some reason).

I almost always use F11, which is a good all-rounder I have found, but if you take a look at my weevil shots that I have just uploaded, not all of the body is completely in focus because it was a bit larger than the cricket. Hope that throws some light on it for you

Linda

Thanks Linda for the info. yes it will help me in the end.

Bill

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Robert_Lay wrote in post #3540230
The exposure, lighting and background are each contributing to the 3-dimensionality.
Gorgeous shot!

Thanks Bob - very kind of you, glad you liked it

Linda

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Attic wrote in post #3540499
Hi Linda, super shot of a very colourful critter.

Thanks Alby

bromm wrote in post #3540817
Excellent shot of a kewl cricket!

Thanks bromm, glad you liked him

Linda

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400 F5.6L|70-200 F4L IS|24-105 F4L[COLOR=black] IS|18-55
Macro: 100mm F2.8L IS|100mm| F2.8 |60mm F2.8.