Bacon Lettuce Photo

by Joe

“This is a very atypical shot of me - I usually shoot people. Because of this, there is no trade secret I can share, perhaps the principle of selectivity: my macro shots are mostly mediocre at best and I can not produce consistent output on this field. I have published this only because I felt that the colour balance, the sense of motion and having both the “facial features” of the bug and the wings on the same plane of focus was a sufficiently rich set of features to do so. Apart from selection (out of some other shots without motion), fairly strong cropping the image - some 40% left - was the ony creative tool I used (otherwise: 50mm [100mm ecv. in 35mm fov terms] with extension tube, iso200 1/200s, f3.5 and an Olympus E-3). There is perhaps only one thing this and “real” or “professional” macro photography has in common: patience and luck. This bug was shot in our backyard - Spring turned surprisingly hot suprisingly quickly.”

The perspective of this shot is unique in that you can’t get that close and see an insect that clearly. The depth of field and the colors bring out the subject as well. Zsombor Cseres-Gergely is a photographer from Budapest, Hungary. Make sure to check out his website. He’s a bit modest but this is a lovely photo. Well done!