Perpetual insect photo thread

[Erad]

you know what, now that i look at it, it actually only has 6 legs. looks like it has 2 missing legs.

[Erad]

here is the same spider a few hours later, sucking a fly.

[Phill D]

Excellent shot Erad can you supply some details, camera lens settings etc.

[Erad]

Thanks for the kinda words Phili. im actually using a Kodak DX7590. that shot was taken at f4.00, 1/800, ISO 100. im using it standard, no attachable lense on it yet.

[Phill D]

I thought you must have used some sort of image processing on the spider wow then that shot is even better than I thought - nice one.

[Erad]

all i did was cropped it and added the innerglow.

[Tyger]

Well, i just got my Kenko extension tubes and went out to try it out. All pics were handheld, so some focus points are off.

[Tyger]

[Norm in Fujino]

Here's a gal I found on my front porch tonight:



The focus assist lamp on the fl-50 had a hard time at this macro distance, so I shined a flashlight on the grand dame while focusing.

Olympus e-300 + ED 14-54mm, uncropped (54mm, 1/100s @ f8), ISO 100, FL-50 flash + Lightsphere + flashlight (focusing aid!)

[Geoff Chandler]

You know, I cannot compete as it were with some of these fantastic shots - I have no close up macro lens and with my P&S cameras cannot put extension tubes in - it's almost tempting to get out the old OM2 with all the bits and have a go - then scan it, but No, No - I have decided to move on.
So - here's my friendly little garden spider - and he's pretty small, up close from the underside today.
A-200 about as close as I could get - then cropped a bit more...