Hangin' on to the prey

Posted by Srinivas Koduri (Wheeling, IL, United States) on 11 October 2006 in Animal & Insect.

Hi People,
I will be posting a series of macro and closeup photos of my work starting today. Most of them will be Flora and occasionally insects and others. Keep in mind that i do not have a Expensive macro equipment, and all the time i had to rely on auto focus here. So any little discrepancy relating to focus and sharpness should be foregiven.
I will start with a recent shot of a spidy which i shot couple of days back in the backyard. The prey he is holdin onto is a mosquito that he sacked with his web. Background is selectively desaturated.

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Comments (13)

Rodion Kovenkin from Mogilev, Belarus

Good one!
I love its colours!
The shadow on background is little distracting for me but overall it looks very good.

11 Oct 2006 5:30am

Prashanth Manikyarajaiah from Bangalore, India

Nice colors on its tummy

11 Oct 2006 6:39am

Enoch Chu from Sacramento, CA, United States

wow nice! the colors and you can see the web!
ah sometimes natural stuff can be so beautiful

11 Oct 2006 6:45am

Shuva Brata Deb from Hyderabad, India

Read is real good macro.The colors rock!

11 Oct 2006 6:56am

Madhusudhan Rao from Hyderabad, India

Good macro u got with limited equipment. Well done

11 Oct 2006 8:06am

Jason Kravitz from Brussels, Belgium

this is a colorful subject - i try to find spiders in my yard to photograph but they are all kind of boring and brown (although nicely hairy!)

11 Oct 2006 8:36am

Suby and Sinem from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

I see I will be sorta skipping the series, have this horrible phobia for all "creepy crawlers" eeeewww & eeeeccck :)

Suby

11 Oct 2006 9:24am

Craig Persel from Montreal, Canada

Youch!

11 Oct 2006 10:10am

Ryan Yam from Quezon City, Philippines

It's a very good macro to think that you had to move the camera so close to the insect (6 mm). The limited colors of grey black and yellow is interesting. Weren't you scared of getting bitten? lol

11 Oct 2006 11:13am

@Ryan Yam: Hehhe Insects wont bite the photographers good at heart ;-)

Jeff Torgerson from Washington, United States

great shot.. although i'd agree the shadow is a bit distracting

11 Oct 2006 2:58pm

Ardeshir from Tehran, Iran

I don't like insect but it is a great macro shot!

11 Oct 2006 5:09pm

Manuela from Hainburg, Germany

Great colours and you can even see its hair...

11 Oct 2006 7:02pm

ratna from India

Your torch , viewfinder, golden eye(you know which one I mean!), flower and clips have now fallen behind this one ; your new number one! the flower on the wall (is that right?) is next now (may be because these are the ost revent ones I saw , haven't gotten used to them ;-)

13 Oct 2006 12:55am

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