What Are You Looking At?by
lovebugComment by sidpixel: *Hello from Sid and the Critique Club*
A good macro that meets the challenge well.
Hello Becky, may I extend a warm welcome to you from DPC and what a way to start, well done. Curiosity is naturally suggested with those large eyes, I like the focus on the eye, this is all important with any portrait be it insect, human, statue, everything so well done with that. The colours are good throughout and the exposure and detail is also good. Its a shame that the foreground stalk interferes the way it does but there's not a lot you could do about that.
What could be improved is the DOF. It is good that you have got the right eye in sharp focus but the DOF is so shallow that nothing else is in focus. I think it would have improved it if you could have got all of the head in focus. This could have been achieved with a smaller aperture, for example, f8 which would have reduced your shutter speed to about 1/25 but you have plenty of scope with your ISO to bring it back up to about ISO 800 which would give you about 1/100 which with a tripod would be no problem.
This is a great start to your DPC presence, I really look forward to lots more exciting stuff from you in the near future, Sid
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