Painful photographs

[steevdavis62]

I was taking photos of a small flower today, on a potter shrub on my verandah. Anyhow, i had taken bout 5 photos, when i happened to lift the branches and noticed, less then 5cm from my face, this wasp nest... I must say it scared the bugger out of me, but seeing that none of them bit me. I decided to try my luck with quickly snapping a couple of photo's and then taking off. Well i didnt get any fantastic photos, but i did get this one, which i didnt mind. I think the fact i was so close to a wasp nest with out realising it, then was able to photograph them and not get bitten is what makes me appreciate this photo.



But what i was wondering, does anyone have stories out there like this. Where they where photographing something dangerous or painful. Doesnt matter if you did or didnt get hurt, a story is a good story. Please share

[Sita 900]

Neat picture, I'd be way too nervous to come into contact with those little death machines. Bottom is a little too bright for me, but I like it still

I have no stories. I lead a pretty boring life :-(

[steevdavis62]

lol thanks... yeh it was a really sunny day, and bits of light where unfortunatly filtering through the leaves, and that bit did over expose. probably a way to fix it on photoshop, i just dont know it...

I didnt intentionally run into them, trust me, but seeing i did accidently, it was lucky. I forgot to mention, that was actually shooting on macro mode, not zoom. so i really was about 2 inches from them..

[steevdavis62]

This is just another one i took the other day, of some nasty little cirtters.

[Sita 900]

are those ants? they aren't nasty!! Haha my boyfriend and I have pet ants in an ant farm! B) Ants are hard to photograph... I've tried before, good job!

[steevdavis62]

They indeed are ants.. Im sorry if i offended your ants, im sure your ants are very cute. Just when u get bitten by ants, they dont seem so cute anymore... lol, yeh took me many tries to get this photo. But thanks for the compliment, you have any photos of your ants?

[stuart]

wow thats a great shot ive tried the same thing but with bees and from a distance, the bee was always a bit blurry mostly me and the fact that a much better lense would help im sure

[steevdavis62]

LoL doesnt always need a good lense. that was just my fujifilm S700's on macro mode... no special lense. But yeh, bee's would be alot harder, because they fly, and sting. If you wanna film ants, find a nice littel branch, put some honey down.. leave it for 2 hours and then come back, and u have heaps of subjects running around

[stuart]

macro mode that sounds neat how does that work? does the camera alow you shorter focusing distance???

[steevdavis62]

Yeh its just a setting that those of us who cant afford DSLR's and macro lense uses. Most small P/S and digital camera's have it. Its usually represented by a small flower, that looks like a tulip, and on modes wheel. What sort of camera do you use?

Yeh it shortens your focusing distance alot. Mine is great, i keep bumping my lense on objects im trying to photograph, while still in full focus.