Iron Bug

A very nicely composed beautiful result, Vlad!

Nice crop, color and DOF.

Oh my goodness!! You ventured into F/2.8!!! Excellent detail in the bug Vlad. I cannot tell if you tried Aperture Priority, but if you haven't yet, try it next time. You Probably have. I usually use Spot Metering and I have to Focus Manually with my lens. I still have so much to perfect, but that is half the fun! and at times 'frustration'!!! ;-) Gail

Gail, I am just following you at that F2.8 quest! I do 99% of work in aperture mode, and, yes, only manual focussing for macro (as my sigma doesn't work properly in AF mode!).

always nice to get a bug into your shot

Kind of makes you wonder why they add Autofocus to a lens??? Just more 'stuff' to cause problems later down the road (hopefully not!) but it sure would drive down the cost of the lens!!!