Curious Grasshopper Enjoys The Limelight
Macro Fun With A Canon EOS 5D and Sigma 105mm DG Macro Lens
My previous post about using my Canon EOS 5D camera and Sigma DG Macro lens for the first time prompted me to go into my garden here in the Philippines to see what lurked there for me to immortalise in colourful mega pixels. The afternoon sun was very hot so I had to be very quick as the sweat was running down my forehead and into my eyes making focusing very difficult. Along with my camera I also used a Slik Pro 400DX tripod with it’s legs fully retracted. The Slik tripod is heavy enough to be steady and light enough to lug around in tight places like my small garden. As luck would have it I came across a small grasshopper around a centimeter in length just asking to be framed. I set up the tripod and camera as gently as possible in the tangled undergrowth and managed to get a couple of pics before it took fright and hopped away.
