A Zillion you.
by riksnake

Comment:

Originally posted by MaryO: He looks like he has lips LOL. Excellent macro.

Thank you very much Mary O, yes must agree it look like lips too me too. I am just as amazed by how tier eyes look like. Hope there will be more interesting insect in the future.

Best regards,

Roger New

A Zillion you.
by riksnake

Comment:

Originally posted by bvy: Hard not to like this!

Thank you BVY, I am so glad that I finally finding more photographers that do love macro too. Glad that you like how this Long horned beetle is shot. Many thanks.

Best regards,

Roger New

A Zillion you.
by riksnake

Comment:

Originally posted by 3DsArcher: Macro photography never fails to impress me. Excellent example

Thank you 3Ds Archer, I am glad to know more macro here. Willl my best to post better macro photos. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Best regards

Roger new

My Life story
by riksnake

Comment:

Originally posted by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club! I love having a subject like this gentleman here. The colours, textures and tones are great, the composition simple and manages to avoid dead-centredness by the slight angulation of his head away from you. Now for the nitpicky part. Shallow dof works great for macros and some subjects, and can work well portraits...but I'm afraid the fact that his eyebrows and the tip of his nose is so out of focus that is detracts greatly from the overall image. Ditto the more slightly oof right eye. Most lenses aren't at their best wide-open and I think that a few more stops down would give us all that lovely detail only hinted at here. Your settings confuse me a bit...why such a high ISO and fast shutter speed? Surely you could have got away with an ISO of 320-400 and a shutter speed of 1/100. That would have allowed you to shoot at f.4 or more. Otherwise, a lovely image with tons of potential. Please keep shooting and entering and feel free to PM me with any questions. ETA: Might I suggest that, as this is a Free Study entry, that you take a good look at the 12th place image in this challenge and in particular a good look at the settings used! Susan

I just saw you comment perhaps that's why I did not tick the useful to photographer box. I am certainly very thankful for you comments and they are pinpoint accuracy. This is the very first time I am using this manual lens and yes. I jumped on the F2 instead of F4 or even F8 which is close to the sweet spot for this lens. Regrettably, I can't go back now, it was a great trip to Indonesia which I will be heading there again in a few days time. I will not make this mistake again. Your feedback is fantastic and certainly very very helpful indeed, thank you very much for your kind pointers.

Free Ride
by riksnake

Comment:
Thank you everyone for the support, I am really happy with the result.

Thank you Andrew, Gin, Suki and Mary Ann.

Stealth - I taste you...
by riksnake

Comment:
I am thankful to all that voted for my result. Especially valuable comments and feedback, greatly appreciated. Thank you everyone.