Some random bugs

[doenoe]

Some more bugs from my brothers garden:
#1 This spider just crawled out of his old jacket. It was hanging there, drying a bit before he would vanish again. Thought it was pretty neat to see his old jacket still hanging above him

#2

#3 An empty bug case

#4 Thought i would post it like it was, upside down

#5 Someone made the old skin a new home (look closely)

#6 And offcourse............a bumble bee

Thanks for looking
Greetz Daan

 

[Chris of Arabia]

Impressive as always Daan, but #1 is something special

 

[im_trying11]

what did you use on this shot

 

[tpe]

Number two is my fave, just great and difficult to get the angle right. The dragon fly nymph slough is great and very alien too. Shame we have just missed them, it would be nice to get the draggon fly emerging as a shot, and they are expecially docile when they do, aparently early in the morning.

tim

 

[Antarctican]

How you get such detail on handheld shots just amazes me. My faves are the first and last.

 

[doenoe]

Impressive as always Daan, but #1 is something special

Thanks, i myself like #2 a bit more, cause you can look into the old skin and see the sockets of where his legs used to be.

what did you use on this shot

Canon 350D, Sigma 105mm 2.8 macro, speedlite 430EX with a lumiquest softbox on it

Number two is my fave, just great and difficult to get the angle right. The dragon fly nymph slough is great and very alien too. Shame we have just missed them, it would be nice to get the draggon fly emerging as a shot, and they are expecially docile when they do, aparently early in the morning.

tim

yeah, would love to see that once in my life. And yeah, for all i know they emerge in the morning and cant fly away immidiatly, since they have to fill their wings with blood and have to dry. Think they are the best models ever during that.........but after that, phew
And thanks for the comment

How you get such detail on handheld shots just amazes me. My faves are the first and last.

Thank you. Just have to practice alot on keeping your body (yeah body, not only the hands) steady. In the begining lots of pictures come out blurry, but after a while the toss/keep ratio gets better. And the flash helps alot too :mrgreen:

 

[duncanp]

number 4 is my favourite closely followed by number 2, i wish i could take stuff like this

 

[Michaelaw]

All are great but #4 is GREAT!

 

[doenoe]

Thanks for the replies you 2

number 4 is my favourite closely followed by number 2, i wish i could take stuff like this

But you can, i saw your spider pic. That looks pretty good, just need a bigger f-number so more of the spider is in focus

 

[Chiller]

:hail::hail::hail:​

Awesome as always Daan...Cant pick a fave here.​

 

[Cameron Cushman]

I am pretty sure #5 may be a male of the same species at the one who shed its skin. If not its probably still a male

 

[doenoe]

Thanks for the replies
It could be a male, it was rather far from the bigger one, but it still can be the male offcourse.