The hands up moment

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: ID Help appreciated

Came across this really tiny spider, almost seemed like mimicking the tiny red/yellow ants, but it didnt try exactly blending in and rather kept the front limbs up in the air and kept moving cautiously along the branch. The spider was just 3-4 mm and though it kept moving along running through the ants, it stopped at this particular position and hardly moved for the next 5mins(atleast the time that I spent framing it)

EXIF:
Canon 550D
Canon 100mm macro + Raynox DCR 250
F/14
Shutterspeed 1/160
ISO 400
Handheld, external flash fired

Location: Ovalekarwadi Butterfly garden, Thane

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Interesting. Looks slightly soft to me. Is this a large crop? Have you tried using extension tubes? Thanks for sharing.

[Prajwal J Ullal]

Yeah, had to crop it down by 40%.
I used to use Extension tubes, but later I realized I loose ample amount of light, and also its difficult to instantaneous shift from normal macro to extension tube macro, felt it much easier with Raynox, though at the loss of details

[Roshni Patel]

Very well composed and framed with perfect background :)