Speckled Bush-cricket (Order Orthoptera, Leptophyes punctuat

Hi Matthew! What a coincidence! Last Monday I had the exact same species in front of my lens. Your photo of it is undoubtedly better though . It's a very nice composition with that great quiet background. I assume that it has some pollen on its legs and antennae, and that adds some nice colours. The extremely long antennae are virtually impossible to capture with a usable dof, but I guess that's not really necessary either. It's not disturbing here anyway. The detail in the cricket is great. I only have a little trouble with the blown out highlights in the perch. However, I think that the shadow/highlight tool of Photoshop CS could well bring back some of the still faintly visible detail there back into the image. That's a small nit anway!

Cheers!

Awesome shot. I really like the light and the comp.
Thanks for posting,

This is my kind of shot! Sweet and simple. I agree about burning in the highlight areas on the leaf a bit.

A difficult subject to photograph, and you nailed this one pretty good of this little guy.
Yes, there are some blown areas and could be re-worked in PS, but still a cool shot. A shot that I have never even come close to getting I might add!!

Keep them coming buddy, ..................... or M8t!

Excellent shot, lovely diagonal composition. The stem looks warm but not blown out to me - I bet you could fix it in RAW processing.

Thanks for comments & suggestion. In reply to Arthur yep the little guy was caught taking a trip though my flowers, hence the pollen. Regarding the leaf highlights, well they are not blown and I was printing this image first and just resize, I guess I should have toned them down a tad for web posting. You live and learn, thanks again all.

Regards
Matthew

Hey Matthew

Excellent looking critter,
Very good details, stem and plant came out a little hot on my monitor.
Nice comp, like the diagonal. Well done.