Praying mantis

[EightyFive]

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Not a perfect photo but it's very rare to find this bug near here so I try to portrait it also if the light was not so good and I was without tripod.

 

[Petea]

A good attempt with the eye in focus. I think it could have done with more depth of field but I suspect you had to open up to compensate for having to hand hold to get a decent shutter speed.

Another option would have been to increase the ISO so as to use more DOF

 

[Frequency]

I think the two podia should have been included completely ; nice image indeed

 

[EightyFive]

A good attempt with the eye in focus. I think it could have done with more depth of field but I suspect you had to open up to compensate for having to hand hold to get a decent shutter speed.

Another option would have been to increase the ISO so as to use more DOF

these are all right considerations! You're right at all

 

[ChrisA]

Like the eye focus. I'd rotate the image to portrait personally.