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gus
Jan-05-2005, 09:49 PM
Talk about tiny...had a lot of trouble with the focus...maybe 5mm (1/4") long.




http://wadjelaphotography.smugmug.com/photos/13800396-L.jpg
ian408
Jan-05-2005, 09:58 PM
Tiny little bugger he is!

Your macro stuff is really coming along too. Good stuff.

Ian
gus
Jan-05-2005, 10:04 PM
Tks ian...that depth of field is sooooo so small. I think it is maybe 2 or 3 mm's at the most.
Shakey
Jan-05-2005, 11:30 PM
Wow :clap I am sure grooving on all of your latest photos Humungus. Everyone of them are first rate mate.


Tim
gus
Jan-05-2005, 11:32 PM
Wow :clap I am sure grooving on all of your latest photos Humungus. Everyone of them are first rate mate.


Tim
Tks shakey....sure as hell beats working.
pathfinder
Jan-06-2005, 06:11 AM
Tks shakey....sure as hell beats working.


You got that right mate!! Nice photographs 'gus. :thumb
Ann McRae
Jan-06-2005, 07:16 AM
I love spiders! Few exotic looking ones here, but I'll be looking for them come June.

Great composition here, Gus.

Thanks for sharing - and I agree about photography beating work!

ann
gregneil
Jan-06-2005, 08:01 AM
Fantastic. And it could probably kill you.

I love how the green of the spider matches the background. Was it in a tree? What is it hiding in? Some kind of seed pod?

Impressive how you got the spider to pose like that, with it's leg angling along the line of the open... brown thing. I love it.
gus
Jan-06-2005, 10:57 AM
Thanks guys...greg it is a seed pod. I was looking for some more bees (they are impatient fellas to shoot) when about 2 feet above my head i spotted a little green leg sticking out of a pod. I know that the pod is dead & nothing green should be there so i hung around that tree for a while until out it popped.

A very photogenic spider & let me get 3/4" away without flinching once. I couldnt see the LCD screen & it was almost into the sun (overcast). The real hard bit is that something that small wont let the auto focus lock on & you keep ending up with the background so i put it on manual & held the camera up & winged it from there.

You can see just how shallow the depth of field is as his 2nd front knee is out of focus & the foot on that leg isnt.

The things we do for a shot 'eh ?