Crab spider (A typical female Crab Spider in the genus Thomisus) with Tamil Lacewing

[Prashant Jois]

Wild Woods Spa, Toodalli Village Butterly
21-07-2012 5:13 PM
Canon 7D with 100-400mm
Aperture priority
Tv 1/125
f 5.6
Evaluative metering
EC -1/3
ISO 800
Fl 400mm
cropped. Thanks for viewing and please do pass on your C&C.

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Nice documentation. Crab spiders often catch prey much larger than themselves. They sometimes mimic a part of a flower to do so.
More DoF was needed here, but it looks like the light was bad. A little separation between the leaf and the bottom edge would have been better.
TFS

[Atul Sinai]

Very well documented. Agree with Abhishek. As the light was low you could have gone for ISO 1250. This would have enabled you to get around F8 aperture and more depth of field. Canon 7D performs decent even at high ISO.

TFS

[Roopak Gangadharan]

nice. the focus seems to be on the prey

tfs
Roopak

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Nice record. Initially I thought it is a butterfly post. Later on I realised what was going on. May be while photographing the white colour of the spider would not have been noticeable. Light seems to be pretty bad. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi