Macro Spiders & Flowers...

[Remorhaz]

I'd not been out with my macro lens for quite some time so one afternoon late last week I went out with the Tamron 90mm macro and my SB900 flash with my cheap $5 ebay over the lens popup diffuser on and went in search of the little things in life to photograph (a.k.a. stuff out in the streets nearby )

What Lies Beneath - Phonognatha graeffei, referred to as the Leaf Curling spider



and who can resist the tiny balls of fluff



I think this is a yellow black orb weaver spider - but if you know what it really is please tell me



a very closeup view of the tiny stamens on this flower (a type of very fine flowered bottle brush I think)



finally an even more scary looking Golden Orb spider - triptych showing closer and closer images

[zafra52]

Good composition and colour, but I am
partial and I don't like spiders all that
much. However, I like best the close up
of the red flower. I have always found
red a challenge for any of my cameras.

[chrisk]

i like all of them. particularly i like the second although i think it could use a bit of a contrast bump, looks a little flat.
nice idea with the tryp aswell. very clever

[biggerry]

I like the triptych, how about shuffling the order, it feels a bit too...linear, maybe put the super close up in the middle..

[Remorhaz]

Good composition and colour, but I am partial and I don't like spiders all that much. However, I like best the close up of the red flower. I have always found red a challenge for any of my cameras.

Funny - my daughters were the same - didn't like them because of the spiders

The series of red flower images I took with the green background were my favourite - I'm thinking of doing a triptych or four (whatevertych it's called) of the images taken at various distances (so you get to see what it is)

i like all of them. particularly i like the second although i think it could use a bit of a contrast bump, looks a little flat. nice idea with the tryp aswell. very clever

Thanks Rooz - that made a huge difference - just getting to grips with LR4 - it appears it brings in images with less contrast by default compared to LR3

I like the triptych, how about shuffling the order, it feels a bit too...linear, maybe put the super close up in the middle..

Thanks dude

[gstark]

I like the triptych, how about shuffling the order, it feels a bit too...linear, maybe put the super close up in the middle..

[ATJ]

I like the detail in the 2nd and 4th, especially the second.

I personally (others may not) have a problem with the first because the spider itself is mostly out of focus but still recognisable. I think it either needs to be sharper or more out of focus.

The 3rd (St Andrew's Cross spider, Argiope keyserlingi) is much the same. The web is lovely and sharp, but the spider is unsharp. It doesn't work for me.

I agree with the other comments about the triptych.