Insect Photography II : Mating

I took this photos at the garden at the back of my mansion. At first I was trying to shoot on a butterfly but it didn't stay still and keep on flying and I couldn't even have one shoot on it. Anyway, I accidentally jumped into this loving couple and definitely I won't miss the chance because you hardly can have them staying still for this long period.

I mentioned in my last post about having problem to shoot insect in a short distance. So what I did was to take a clear photo at the best distance and then cropped the main object so that the insect appear bigger in the photo.

The original photo

After cropping, the object become more significant.

Insect Photography

I like to shoot on insect. But I usually cannot get a good one because I don't have a macro lenses. Is really hard to focus on them in such a short distance using a normal lenses. So what I can do is not to shoot them in detail but try to include other element like flower. Hope that I can save up enough money to get myself a macro lenses. Is so expensive when I check on the Nikkor lenses catalog.

Anyway I faced one problem when I am using my D40 which only have 3 focus point, I can focus sharply on one object but like the photos below when I want to focus on the mantis and the bee at the same time, I always get one in focus and other out of focus.How can I focus on two object when they are separate by a distance?Do you have any idea how can I overcome this problem? Is it changing the aperture is the only solution? Or there is other trick?

Don't come over or I will chop you in to pieces!!

Don't run away you "chicken"

A little green spidey