creeper on orchid/ spider

[saeedkm]

Hi all, these are two of my toughest macros and most pleasing too! i've just put up my first set on flickr, wanted to thank DPS and all of you for being such a great community, and to say that this site helped me tremendously in realising my dream of doing serious photography.

I shot the creeper in an incessant drizzle, balancing myself with an umbrella between my neck & shoulder to protect mycam, struggling to balance my cheap tripod on a mud sack, two wobbly stones on top of each other, and an upsidedown mud pot lying around. With a set of three extension tubes, I was sweating (it was pretty cold at the time) by the time i got focus on this creeper. After trying different compositions I settled for this one. While I was packing up I realised the creeper end had entangled itself on the tripod lever too! not sure if that was natural or caused by my acrobatics. Snooped around to see if anyone was looking, the scene in itself would have made a good photo and convinced my family to disown me






(The spider shot has been described in my flickr descr. i am pasting it here again- )
After struggling for one and half hours with this chirpy fellow, running behind him with a camera (heavy with the entire set of extension tubes) and tripod, literally begging him to stay still for a precious second, after innumerbale shots on my brand new 6.5 fps 40D, i finally got a few focused shots of him. Barely 1cm in size, this one was taken just before he jumped onto my glass and ran all over the camera setup. I just gave up ultimately- if he wasnt keen on a super portfolio by a budding photographer willing to dedicate his life to it, too bad but many thanks to him anyways, my first effort at an insect macro was not such an utter failure after all.


Thank you all for looking, thank you darren for running one of the most resourcesful feeds on the web.

[fstopMike]

Welcome to DPS! Your hours of hard work have resulted in a mighty fine post! Keep up the good work.

[Tally Wa]

Great shots! Personally I like the top one better, but I'm just biased because I don't like spiders, but the spider shots great too!! He looks a bit confused

[CiarraDawn]

Goodness, you're dedicated. Both of these shots are absolutely amazing. I love the color. To be honest, I'm scared to high Heaven of spiders but for some reason that shot reminds me of a puppy. LOL.

[flavio]

Good Job!
NIce pictures!
Your efforts don't go unappreciated.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and the story behind them.

[fotoshooter]

These are both phenomenal, but the spider is out of this world fantastic!!

[anaik]

Wow ! the second shot looks awesome keep up the good work !

[rawHulk]

Fantastic shots.. well worth all the effort that you put in..

[emanhaud]

These are both awesome! I am quite partial to spiders so I prefer the second one.

You didn't by any chance get a video of yourself chasing the spider? Sounds like fun to watch.

[saeedkm]

thanks mike, i like ur signature.
thanks tally wa.
puppy?! thats funny ciarradawn..thanks
flavio, fotoshooter, anaik and rawhulk, u guys are very kind, thanks
and emanhaud- i dont even want to think about it- when is canon launching a transformers edition?