Ant moving around inside a wild crocus on a windy, cloudy morning.
Additional equipment and information:
shot @ 32mm
2 extension tubes - 12mm and 25mm
Cropped only from the bottom.
What I See:
There is one thing I notice in the image, which to me, balances the ant with the rest of the image. It is the green lines coming from under the part of the flower where the ant is and the petal the ant is on. They remind me of insect legs and insect body due to shape and positioning. It's like the ant is riding on it's back.
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I thought this was not bad. I gave it a 5. The problem I see is that it wants to be an abstract, but it isn't quite abstract enough. On the other hand, it wants to be a nature shot, but it's too abstract.
I wished you could have waited a split second so we could have had more of the ant visible. Other than that, the composition is nice. Both subjects are off center and balance each other. The colors are nice as well.
I think that this one suffered from the focus not being crystal clear. While we can make out the head of the ant inside the flower, everything looks blurred to me. These types of shots don't typically do well on this site. Also, bringing the ants position to the left would have helped out your composition some by bring the the center of the flower more into the frame. Great eye to see such a scene, just not the best of all execution. Notice with your high scoring photographs that your focus is crisp and they have a great contrast of colors.
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