Yellow Jacket on Fence Post

[dmcantrell]

I've read this whole thread, and I do agree with most of the comments so far. The one comment I'll make about this specific photo is this :

I want to see more detail on the yellow jacket. I think the insect is lost in the frame, and is clearly the focal point. In other words, I feel like the subject (the insect) does not occupy enough space in the frame - there is a lot of negative space that confuses the brain. This is only my opinion though.

The macro discussion that has taken place in the posts above me will work towards that goal, I think. Keep up the effort though!

[DHaass]

Originally Posted by jfoureyes

We were all new at one time...for me it was 1968 and there was no Internet

They were called books and film back then Jim.

[TheFantasticG]

Originally Posted by jfoureyes

I didn't actually post the link for the quality of lenses used... that is an endless debate... it was for some of the terminology used for macro/closeup photography which a lot of new folks don't know or understand and I think it covers that pretty well... I started out by reading John Shaw's book "closeups in Nature" and I was hooked...

Fair enough, sir.

Originally Posted by jfoureyes

We were all new at one time...for me it was 1968 and there was no Internet

Whhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???? Dang. That was... 15 years before I was born...