Tiny grasshopper

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• hansh (266)
• [2006-06-16 9:19]

With a kitlens you did a great job to capture this small grashopper in such way. It's difficult to cature a green object on a green background and to keep sufficient contrast to see it well. Well done.
Gr. Hans

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• pgmoni (2399)
• [2006-06-16 10:12]
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Hi Valerie
Very nice picture indeed, especially under the circumstances, good light, adequate sharpness and... you did not crop the antennae ;°) !
Precise identification is difficult, because this is a very young Bush-Cricket (not a Grasshopper). It COULD be a young Great Green Bush-ricket (la Grande Sauterelle Verte, Tettigonia viridissima), but there are a number of other Bush-crickets which are not easy to separate from each other on a picture when they are so small...

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• thistle (9268)
• [2006-06-16 10:47]

Hello Valerie,
I think this is a nymph and therefore it's difficult to find a species. I don't know any good website about grasshooper neither. I used to tried to find something but that's quite difficult. There's quite interesting website: bugguide.net with lots of pictures. Sometimes you can find some clues there. Can be a little help when you don't have any idea where to look.
The picture is very good considering that you don't use macro lens. I would say it's better than some pictures taken with macro lens I've seen here ;-)
I like it!
WELL DONE!

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• liquidsunshine (11492)
• [2006-06-16 12:13]

Hi Valerie,

Good detail, colours and sharpness. exposure and lighting are good. Good POV and composition.

Thanks for posting, have a fantastic weekend.

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• magal (1241)
• [2006-06-16 12:35]

Hi Valerie,
Beautiful shot with excellent POV and very good contrast when considering the difficulty posed by having subject and BG with the same colour tones.
TFS
Mark

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• mbasil (3146)
• [2006-06-16 12:44]
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Excellent shot, Valerie. Macros are hard to do, and you pulled off a great one. With regard to the quality, it is very good, but I think a slightly tighter crop and an increase in contrast would make this outstanding. I'll play with it a bit and post a WS.
Mike

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• pablominto (15578)
• [2006-06-16 13:05]

Hi Valerie,
What a tiny cutie!
Excellent camo colours & patterns, and you do a swell macro job!
Details are flawless, colours well reproduced!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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• jmp (8407)
• [2006-06-16 13:44]

Hi Valerie,
Lovely bug that I never saw. The crickets a know are very different to this one and lovely too. It's a nice post!
TFS, José M.

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• ramthakur (27201)
• [2006-06-16 14:07]
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Very interesting bug, but not a grasshopper, I feel.
The POV is very good, and I too like those long antennae, Valerie.
TFS.

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• omurbakir (40)
• [2006-06-16 14:48]

Hello Valerie,
Very nice capture.Details,sharpness and lighting are beautiful.
Thanks for sharing.

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• scottevers7 (12259)
• [2006-06-16 18:46]

Hi Valerie,
You did very well for that lens, and the major cropping you did to get this nice composition. Colors look great, and detail is sharp. Even with the large crop, the noise is very minor. Great job!
Scott

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• loot (9623)
• [2006-06-16 19:54]
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Hi Valerie
This is an excellent close-up of a very cute little cricket shot with the standard lens for your camera. I just love those loooong antennae and the beautiful markings on its body.
Your composition is great, the colours are fine (although I think Mike's workshop did justice to that aspect), the details are as sharp as you could have hoped to achieve with a proper macro lens, the BG is well OOF and the subject isolated on the leave while it shows no significant noise considering the ISO was set to 400, and the exposure was well controlled.
Excellent work and TFS.
Regards
Loot

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• jeanpaul (13939)
• [2006-06-16 23:00]

Bonjour Valerie
C'est un merveilleux macro et les couleurs de cette sauterelle qui se confond super bien avec la feuille demande un oeil très averti pour la voir ,camofflage presque parfait. ,les détails et la composition sont supers.

Merci et au revoir....JP

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• dew77 (13131)
• [2006-06-17 3:41]

Hello Valerie,
Very nice close up.Camouflage is amazing.Sharpness,POV,details,lighting and composition are wonderful.Exposure is spot on.
TFS...:-)

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• SkyF (8113)
• [2006-06-17 8:08]

Hello Valerie,
wonderful closeup, very detailed and nice sharpness. Very nice job on the blurred back ground and POV. Very well done.
Bonne weekend....Sky

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• Dando (3080)
• [2006-06-17 16:52]

Hi Valerie, nice close up of this grasshopper. Well composed shot with good lighting, colours and details. well done and TFS.
Dean.

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• izler (9194)
• [2006-06-18 9:32]

hi valerie
beautiful camouflage photo. splendi green colours tones. pov, sharpness and details are great.
thanks for sharing
greetings
izler

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• eruyanik (4708)
• [2006-06-18 11:46]

Hello Valérie!
I like its antennae too! If you didn't mention about the size, i couldn't know about the size! Cause it looked huge in the frame:-) Great pov and great framing here! It's eye on you also! Very interesting glance! Thank you and best regards!
Ersin

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• jcoowanitwong (11473)
• [2006-08-24 3:44]

Hi Valerie,
Nice picture of this cute little grasshopper. Great composition and well balanced color tone. Well done and TFS. (This insect may be a cricket because of long antennae)
JC

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• martic (1245)
• [2007-08-06 2:48]

bonjour Valerie,
Très réussie cette capture d'un si petit insecte, très bonne netteté pour une photo pas facile
cordialement
Jean-Michel