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Death Grip

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted August 7, 2010111 views6 comments

I'd been watching this spider in my roses, waiting for the right opportunity. When it came it was breezy and this shot was taken during a calmer, very brief moment. I still had to crank up the ISO to freeze the movement, so noise is a problem. The bee was still alive and occassionally tried to escape and when he did the spider would rotate his victim for a firmer grip. I have a few shots where the bee is literally in a bear hug from beneath. They are definitely the best compositions but the wind was really kicking so the ISO went even higher causing so much noise that ACR in PSE7 couldn't even touch it. Any suggestions resolving extreme noise would be appreciated. Comments welcome, thanks for looking.

D5000
Sigma 150
f/18 @ 1/50 sec
ISO 2000

Comments

6 comments

Comment posted by Sam Rua on August 7, 2010 at 4:12 PM

Awesome detail and light, Bruce. Not bad at all for ISO 2000. I've got to get one of those Sigma 150's.

Registered on September 9, 2006, 130 Posts, 2281 Comments

Comment posted by mark cillo on August 7, 2010 at 8:52 PM

This is a really interesting capture. I like the DOF, the spider being behind the sharp focus works well for this image. Well captured especially given the light constraint. Noise Ninja works well IMO

Registered on July 27, 2008, 143 Posts, 1483 Comments

Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on August 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM

Very nice capture. The position of the subjects, with the spider OOF is superb.

Congrats

D&L

Registered on October 7, 2008, 166 Posts, 3044 Comments

Comment posted by Balakumar Kaushik on August 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM

Nice moment Bruce.
Lovely colours and excellent details considering the ISO settings u've shot with !
Can't ask for more I guess :)

Registered on January 4, 2008, 98 Posts, 1403 Comments

Comment posted by Gary Yeoh on August 8, 2010 at 8:45 PM

Bruce:
The noise is not that bad at iso2000. On the D90, the highest I would go is around 800 but this is really a great improvement on the d5000. Nice capture and love the red petals.

Registered on September 1, 2009, 588 Posts, 8184 Comments

Comment posted by Bruce King on August 9, 2010 at 11:09 AM

Thanks for the comments. I agree the noise at ISO 2000 isn't too bad at all. But I have other shots of the spider and the bee at a higher ISO that are much worse. Unfortunately they are also the best compositions.

Registered on January 14, 2010, 276 Posts, 2212 Comments