Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: JKoerner007 on June 11, 2017, 10:11:30 pm
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(http://www.thenaturephotographer.club/thumbnails/1/1_thumb_0000002015_large.jpg)
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Seriously nice! Great pose and DOF, but how on earth did you get that guy to stay still and get that close? Very impressive.
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Seriously nice! Great pose and DOF, but how on earth did you get that guy to stay still and get that close? Very impressive.
Excellent! The eyes are scary! Macro photography as it should be done.
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Lovely. Characteristic pose for this spider.
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She appears to be thriving even without one of her front legs. Mecaphesa californica?
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Seriously nice! Great pose and DOF, but how on earth did you get that guy to stay still and get that close? Very impressive.
Thank you.
I like crab spiders because they are interestingly-shaped, and they sit still for long periods, allowing for a stack.
This image was taken with a Nikkor AI-S 50mm f/1.2 lens, reversed, on a Nikon PB-6 Bellows @ 3.9:1 (23-image stack)
That was as far as I could go before she moved ;D
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Excellent! The eyes are scary! Macro photography as it should be done.
Thank you.
The eyes are interesting to me, not scary. You can see each of them "shine," then go black, "shine," then go black as they sit there.
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Lovely. Characteristic pose for this spider.
Thanks Nancy.
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She appears to be thriving even without one of her front legs. Mecaphesa californica?
Yeah, would have made the image better had she been symmetrical ... but she seemed to be fine without it.
May re-grow it on the next moult. Yes, that would be my guess too (but a microscopic examination would be necessary to confirm).
You an arachnophile too :)
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Impressive.
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Thanks Paulo :)
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Top notch, John! Having done macro (more in the past than today), I know how immensely difficult this photo would have been to make. Well-executed!
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Top notch, John! Having done macro (more in the past than today), I know how immensely difficult this photo would have been to make. Well-executed!
Much obliged, Terry, and I appreciate the empathy on the difficulty :D
Most extreme macro stacks are done on dead arthropods ... it is especially difficult to deep stack live ones, as often they won't "hold still" long enough to allow for adequate DOF.
Crab spiders (and, often, Lynx spiders) rely on camouflage, so they can be stacked as live subjects and are interesting enough visually to be worth the effort :)
Cheers,