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Published: 2011-10-28 23:50:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 559; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 29
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Either that, or it's a Shield Huntsman Spider sitting on my kitchen window. The red bead near its mouth is the eye of a house fly it has just caught, and nearly finished consuming. I love the spotty legs on these things.Diffused off camera flash, EF100mm F/2.8L Macro, and stacked Kenko tubes. Just over 1.4x life size.
F/22, 1/125sec, ISO 200
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To start off with what a great picture, e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/sā¦ " width="15" height="15" alt="
There is a good use of colour and detail in this picture. I love the range of tones in the pictures. But also the amount of detail captured on the legs of the spider. Being able to see the individual hairs and 'spots' as well.
I love the use of angel, showing you dont have to use a standard angle taking pictures of spiders. But also helps crop out any 'spare' space.
I wouldnt change the composition of the picture, as it works well.
Im unsure if a flash was used on the picture, but there seems a very patch on the stomach of the spider, i dont think this affects the picture at all.
Overall a great picture!
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Thanks again Kayleigh. It's always nice to get some detailed feedback, and I really appreciate your critiques.
You're right that there is a little flash on the spider's thorax. This was taken at close to midnight, and through glass. So I used a curled sheet of baking paper and some masking tape to make a diffuser for my speedlite, then placed it at a very shallow angle to avoid a large flash flare on the glass. The trade off is that any part of the spider that is 90 degrees to the flash picks up a diffuse highlight. But it does allow me to capture considerable detail.
Placing her at an angle, and spanning the diagonal was intended to convey a feeling of how dynamic these spiders can be. I hoped having her extend well beyond the frame would give a feeling for just how large these spiders are. But at only around 3 centimetres this one is a fairly small specimen.
I think the shield huntsman is the most handsome and photogenic of the Australian huntsman spiders. I'm glad you liked this one.
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Its no problem at all, if there is a particular one you want me to critique let me know
Well i think you did well to minimise the effect of the flash otherwise it would have drowned out all colour changed the actual colour completely.
Certainly a beautiful spider to take a picture of
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Excellent shot. Sharp details. And that eye of a house fly... I would not share lunch with this spider. Congrats for such a timely shot!
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Thanks. Apart from their diet I wouldn't object to sharing with this spider. They are fearsome looking, and very fast (they need to be as they are active hunters). But they are very sweet natured, in that it is nearly impossible to get them to bite a person.
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Yes, I know of people badly bitten by a spider in their homes in South America, but I also know that this only happens by accident. You don't look inside your slippers before you put your feet in or something like that
After we found a centipede in our house, the following week we were always looking inside our shoes and slippers. But they are not commonly found in homes
I agree spiders, bees and wasps only bite people when they feel threatend and panic
This doesn't happen in nature if you just leave them alone. Pollinators do a great work to keep this planet feasible for life and spiders help us much preventing insect plagues
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wow, the angle and crop of the shot really makes this look alien. Very mysterious.
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Thanks, that was the impression I was trying for. Nice to hear it came across.
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Ah mate now thats impressive, too many things I like about this one to mention them all
Amazing job!
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Looking at the thumb, I honestly thought this was a crab! How big is that spider?
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She's still a youngster. A little over 3 centimetres, or a bit under an inch and a half. If she lives long enough she'll grow about 30% to 50% larger. I'm not surprised you mistook her for a crab at first glance. Their body plans have a lot in common.
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Well, I knew their bodies were similar, of course. I just thought that with that coloring, which is quite spectacular, that it really was a small crab!
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