Last minute entry for this - I went to Badbury hoping for a nice sunset but by the time I got there it had clouded over, so I wandered round looking at the orchids (best year ever for them) and 'spotted' this chap - a 6 spot burnet moth perched on a pyramidal orchid. Light was fading fast, so even at 800 ISO I couldn't get the DOF I would have liked, but thought I'd give it a go anyway.
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wow! made me gasp out loud! wonderful composition - love how the gray insect matches the gray background - love the X of his legs and antenae - love your choice of focal plane - love it- love it.
The images that always suffer due to lack of comments are the ones that are right in the middle ground. Everyone comments on the awesome shots. Some comment on the bad shots. But the middle ones, very few people say anything. So here I am to explain why I voted a 5:
This image is actually pretty good. I like the sharpness in the bug. Lack of sharpness is usually my first criteria for voting a macro down (below 5). So what does this lack...? I think it's the flat on angle of the picture. If you got in front of the bug it would add some 3D visual aspects to it. Instead, the only clue to 3D is that the bug is sharp (again, this is good), but the flower on which it stands is blurry. A more angled shot would snag some of the flower and bring it into focus, while allowing the bug to blur just a bit from front to back.
So it's neither a bad shot, nor one that stands out from the crowd... and that's why I ended up giving it a 5. Hope this helps.
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