Jumping Spider with Prey

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Sgt. Pepper
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Jumping Spider with Prey

Post by Sgt. Pepper »

It's been a while since my last post here.
Good to see that all macroholics here are doing really fine. :)

Here's a Jumping Spider image taken from my last trip to the Phils.

Cheers!
edsel

Details of the set-up can be found HERE.
f16, 1/180s, ISO100 (full frame)

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nzmacro
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Post by nzmacro »

Just have to love those eyes my friend, great to see you :D . Excellent article there. Hows Graham doing over there. I must visit more often. Would you submit that one and let us use that as well. Its EXCELLENT !!!

Great details and excellent eye to .........eye'sssss view :D

All the best Edsel.

Danny.

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Post by paul »

Beautiful result from cleverly designed and basic means! My own attempts with reversed lenses have not quite reached that standard, but recently I 'confronted' a jumping spider and found myself (well, my lens) reflected in all its eyes. So my question is: what are the 2 minor specs of light? The big rectangle obviously is the flash as described in you very interesting article. But there are 2 more small dots.

Thanks for the image and the article. Food for thought.

Cheers, Paul
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Post by Ken Ramos »

That is one hairy dude. Reminds me of Frez :lol: Sorry Frez I couldn't resist. :D Great image however. Thanks Edsel
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Post by nephiliim »

how do you get so close to them? When I try that, they seem to smell me or something.. and run or jump away
Sometimes smaller is better!
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Post by paul »

nephiliim wrote:how do you get so close to them? When I try that, they seem to smell me or something.. and run or jump away
My limited experience with jumping spiders is that they are quite curious, and after a couple of shots they jump on the lens (when working with reversed lens setup at a distance of about 2cm) :)
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Post by Sgt. Pepper »

Sorry for the late reply...
Thanks for the comments! :)

Danny: Graeme, not Graham. :P He's doing fine at NPS.

Paul: good question, though I'm not really sure where that two small catchlight came from. It could be a reflection from somewhere.

Cheers!
edsel

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Post by twebster »

Hi ya' edsel :D

Thank you so much for allowing us to use your image on the front cover of www.photomacrography.net. I'm sure visitors to our site will enjoy it as much as we have in our galleries. :D

Best regards as always, :D
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Post by gunn »

congrats sgt pepper. i knew it was a good shot the first time i saw it. subsequently, i did take a few shots myself of a similar spider with an almost similar prey, but never felt inclined to have it posted here because your image was superior to those i had taken. all the best.

gunn

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