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Camel Cricket

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted December 9, 201491 views6 comments

I found this sleeping camel cricket a couple of years ago at a local natural area. K5 IIs 300mm f4 (1/60 sec at f9.0, ISO 640).........Jim

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on December 9, 2014 at 6:35 PM

That's a wild "ear" on this cricket, Jim. It's also well positioned on that arching leaf. Might be worth cropping about half of the space up top.

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Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on December 9, 2014 at 8:40 PM

Nice comp and detail. Beautiful bg. I agree with Mark about cropping some off the top.

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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on December 9, 2014 at 11:57 PM

I love the detail and color. I see the reason for the suggestions about cropping at the top, but I'm not sure how you can do that without ending up with a rather weird shape. I'd keep it as it is.

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Comment posted by Balan Vinod on December 10, 2014 at 12:31 AM

Jim ..its a nice find here, its personal, but I would have worked on the exposure on the cricket, and would a anti clock wise rotation of the frame give the cricket some more importance in the frame? of course the orientation of light would be an issue.

Balan Vinod

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Comment posted by scott lanz on December 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM

Excellent image of this unusual, at least for me, insect. Well composed and exposed, Jim.

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Comment posted by Yun Gao on December 12, 2014 at 8:09 AM

Jim, I like the simplicity and the arching leaf. Works as is for me. Great find and presentation.

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