Saturday 27 March 2010

086: Ladybird, Spruce & Ant

I came across no less than five seven-spot ladybirds having some quiet time on a dwarf spruce.
I decided to take a shot of one in a more secluded position halfway up, through the branches which provide a blurry green vignette around the main subject.
The ant appeared from nowhere, its appearance is a happy bonus.
Rather than the bugs, the most detail here seems to be on the needles (although I don't mind it like this.) Probably just a very slight back focus, or that I wasn't paying enough attention to where the center AF point was.

Settings: f/8, 1/400, ISO 200, Tamron 70-300 tele-macro. Cropped slightly closer for compositional effect.

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