Sticking my tongue out

I took this with the canon 65mm macro lens and a MT24EX

flash--hand held. Comments appreciated.

Nice lighting and exposure.

Good job! I'm a sucker for macro, but great focusing!

I did less than one roll of macro work and I know how hard it is to focus and you got a well focused photo. Maybe a little bit lower position would give it a better look, but I realy like the way it is now.

Great macro shot. If this is a live bug then I'm really impressed. I agree with the others about how hard it is to get a well focused shot with such a shallow depth of field. Are you perhaps shooting in bursts with your 10D? That is one big reason I'd love to have one of those...just shoot a burst of 9 pics and then see if you got the good one.

 

Regardless, this is a really well done macro shot. The cropping is nice as well, with the short DOF the back of the bug is probably not in focus and is therefore best left out.

 

Maybe more color...like a bow tie on the bug ;)

THe bug is sticking his tongue out --- of course he is alive :)

Nice work. I have nothing to say to improve your pic.

What lenses you used?

WOW!! I have never done any macro work, and I can't say that I know very much about it, so I'll just add my two cents (for whatever that's worth!) I think it's great! (Although I wouldn't have guessed that it was his tongue! :-D) I agree that I would have loved to see the entire bug ... but I'd also bet that it would be out of focus at the back end. ;-) Nice work ... maybe he needed a shave first, though.

Impressive! Seeing the whole bug would not work due to the narrow DOF. Cropping just the part that is in focus works well and is a very good use of the available DOF. The tongue sticking out adds and additional element.

Perfect! The only improvement I can think of is that I'd like to see it in a frame!

Great image indeed, good detail and sharpness, great DOF, good cropping, keeping only the detailed part is a good idea in this case. One thing that might improve the picture is a little more color, but I guess putting on some make-up on the poor fella was out of the question...

Technically a great photo ! Macro photography of (living ?) insects is difficult. But this is a very good example of it.

The unsharpness in the background and the large difference in colors between back and subject give a good feeling of depth (perspective ?) in this photo !