Grasshopper Portrait

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Canon EOS 500D + Canon 100mm Macro USM
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/800
Av 7.1
ISO 800
Flash Off
White Balance Daylight (Preset)
Handheld
Full frame image
Processed in LR 3

The grasshopper was feeding on the blade of grass (foreground) when I clicked. Thinking whether I should have used a one stop higher Av to get more of it in focus. Do you think it is an addition, or is it distracting? I have a few other compositions, will post them later.

Thanks, comments and critiques eagerly awaited.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Abhishek,
I think I would have tried for a higher depth of field, may be by atleast one stop. That would have still given you a nicely diffused background due to the distance between the grasshopper and the background.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Thanks Sabyasachi, I agree about the DoF. I was scared to sacrifice shutter speed as I was shooting hand held from a very uncomfortable position. But I guess 1/400 would easily have sufficed.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Lovely details. The different shades of green look nice. I was thinking avoiding the black out of focus area on the top would be good, but moving the camera downwards would also have resulted in some black areas below the leaf, so the present composition looks fine. Look forward to the other compositions. Thanks for sharing.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice. a side on shot wud be nice if it was feeding on the grass.

TFS
Roopak