*Hello from the Critique Club*
First impressions, great close up that has impact.
Isn't it wonderful when mother nature puts stuff in your way just when you want it, it doesn't happen very often but you've seized the opportunity well and used it to good advantage here. Your focus is spot on, sharp on the eye which is so important with any study be it portrait, statue or as here, insect.
Technically, I think there was plenty of scope to use a smaller aperture to sharpen up the wings and thorax but perhaps this was not your desire. At f8 you would only have needed ISO 400, and f11 would still only have been ISO 800 which is easily handled by your camera. As the background is in such soft focus I think this would have given you the DOF needed to get all of the insect sharp without the background becoming too obtrusive, but as I said before, this may not have been what you wanted.
With regard to the challenge you have placed it nicely on the most obvious hotspot which works really well. I also like that you have placed the branching stem in the lower right corner which gives a solid base to the additional flower heads.
The only minor criticism is the OOF dark centre to the soft focus flower below the one on which the insect is, it looks like another insect. Once spotted it is conspicuous enough to detract from the main subject, I think it would improve the image if it was dealt with by cloning or dodging to subdue it.
Overall it is a very competent shot that meets the challenge well and deserving of the respectable score it received. |
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