Potw 01/06/2014
 

Here's my choice of POTW for this past week 25 - 31 May 2014

http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...ll&limit=last7

I love the details captured here, well done Robski on POTW

Absolute perfection. Great choice.

http://www.worldphotographyforum.com...2/IMG_4386.jpg

Great choice

How do you get the photo on, instead of just the link?

just follow the instructions see point 9 <<<here>>> in the 2nd post

Thanks folks - I'm glad you appreciated my efforts but the real star was the insect

Tell me about how you captured the shot? Is is stacked? What lens etc?

I had ideal lighting (bright and overcast).
field craft to know when and where to find your beast.
The beast was freshly emerged so they tend to remain static.
I was very lucky with the pose and position of the beast.
So it was really a case of having the luxury of plenty of time line up the shot.
For this type of close up it is imported to get the lens parallel to the subject to ensure an even DOF across the body of the beast.
It is a single shot, no stacking or tricks in processing.
Heavy duty Tripod.
Lens EF300mm f/4L IS USM with a minimum focus distance of 1.5m with makes a good lens for close ups of Butterfly sized insects. IS packed up last year which I rarely used as 99.9% of my shots with this lens are on tripod. So do I buy another lens or get it fixed ??

Wildlife is the only decent subject where I live, don't get glorious sunsets or landscapes. Getting out with the camera for a few hours on the push bike or walking part of my weekly exercise.

ISO 400 F8 1/500 sec

Thanks for that. I'm just trying to get into wildlife and into landscape photography, 2 areas I'm not that good at. I can't see me ever being able to capture anything anywhere near the quality of yours. What area r u from?

The clarity or this shot is superb, well captured.

lovely clarity, great shot Rob

Wheres this weeks POTW????

Patience ;)

Apologies if my question above offended anyone or came across as negative. This was never my intention and really wasn't supposed to be that way. I have received a message from someone suggesting it might be therefore I apologise for this. Im always in trouble on here for things I say and do. This doesn't ever happen in the other 2 forums I belong to however. Regrettably, I want to belong to forums where I don't have to walk on eggshells or receive messages, of which I have now had several, saying comments I have made are negative, unwelcome, in the wrong place, or not how you do things here. It's such a shame as this is the only forum I have found where people offer comments in the gallery on a regular basis. My comments/posts are never nasty, distasteful, rude, racist, sexual etc, they are only intended to add a little of my personality to the forum. A few have made it clear that this isn't what the forum needs so I really don't belong here. Im not sure this is the place to say all of this, but I have no idea where is. Good luck with the forum in the future and thanks to those who have helped and encouraged me.

I am very sorry to hear this as the forum needs active members like yourself.

I would remind everyone that there is a report post button on the forum. If you feel that there is a problem with anyone's post please click on this and the mods will look into it and take action as needed.