Eric Kong's Close-ups

Sharing with you ppl with some close-up photos here;

This looks so slimy. lol!

Thank for sharing! Get macro lens! POISON!

Another one;



The 2 shots here was not really good in my own opinion cos i din use flash and if i did, the water will bounce the light back.

Try using flash. Maybe it will be better and sharper.

The water will reflect the flash back.

Yup try indirect flash? that means pointing your flash up and bouncing the flash off white card? will it be better?

JackieTalks: wah... never thought of that. will try it next time!

Try it! most of the time i saw people shooting with flash bouncing off white card. So that the flash light will somehow be evenly spread out.

thanx for the useful tips!

Sharing close-up shots of bugs, taken at the park with a sigma 17-70 @ f5.6, ISO 100, manual mode;

No problem. Try it!

A shot of caterpillar;

Wa! it gives me goosebumps!! lol

Nice! looks very poisonous! haha!

Wow! if you touch it, will you get rashes? lol Anyway, nice capture.

nice shot. makes my finger feels itchy..

Not poisonous, just normal one. the poisonous is about the length of 15cm ruler, bigger in size and fast-moving creature and when its hair gets contact with your hand will cause paralyze!

Are you dead serious about paralyze? for how long?

Well, it's believe it or not. another example i can describe here is home centipede and jungle's centipede. if you're afraid of the one found behind your house, then be very afraid when u come across one in the jungle!

Here's the real poisonous caterpillar, sorry for being blur it was quite fast moving towards me as i was trying to capture it up-close and personal;



And here, is the centipede i mentioned above;



Sorry, i dun have time for use off-camera flash as i din want to risk my own life for this little guy. according to the guide, it normally hides under rock and it has the ability to jump but not sure how high. when i hear the guide said it can jump, i just back away and this was the closest i can to.

Wow! This really looks dangerous! Kudos for you!

If the guide din tell me anything, i would have just go nearer and focus on it and capture the shot.

Actually ok la. Because it will jump onto your lens first then you will drop it! lol Just joking.

Ok, creepy creatures aside. here's one that is friendly;

Wow! Did you realise that the wings seems to be in focus?

FotoTods: Not until you mentioned it now! lol