This time of year the cicada's are everywhere around home. The green ones have only recently hatched so tend to stay still when you poke a lens in front of them. After an hour or so they "dry off" and start to turn brown and they fly away far too easily.
I love this macro lens but don't put it on enough!
[Feb. 26th, 2010 01:59:27 AM]
Are you voters taking the p*ss? The challenge says "compose a photograph somehow related to the garden" and this cicada is somehow related to the garden - they sit in the freaking thing all day long. Sometimes I do wonder how I can be so far out of sync with the voters - I really didn't think this shot was going be sitting at 5.3 after 100 votes :(
Statistics
Place: 45 out of 160 Avg (all users): 5.5571 Avg (commenters): 5.8571 Avg (participants): 5.4194 Avg (non-participants): 5.6149 Views since voting: 771 Views during voting: 316 Votes: 210 Comments: 8 Favorites: 0
Great job filling the frame with the subject and I think your composition is spot on. Lighting seems well done as well and the colors are rich and natural. I think your focus is very well done, super sharp and detailed in parts and smoothly blurred in others.
Challenge:
I think this met the challenge well, not sure what some of the voters were thinking when they couldn’t see the connection. Maybe if the bug was sitting on a recognizable object (tomato or something) then they could have made the connection better.
Artistic/Emotion:
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Summary:
I think this is an excellent macro shot that, in my opinion, should have finished around a 6. I don’t think it was anything technical that hurt this shot but was rather a combination of voters not making the connection to the garden and voters who just don’t care for macro bug shots.
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