My model spider

[a.huhton]

I have a spider living on a glass panel on my kitchen door about 6 feet from the ground. I must have taken 100 photo's of him, but due to the location, being on a reflective background I am not getting the results I long for. Taken with a 350d 50 mm 1.8 and extension tubes.

[LordV]

Pretty good considering the difficulties. I was going to suggest trying to get the camera as close to the glass as possible and trying to do a shot nearly side on, but I suspect with the setup you are using the web will get in the way. Think I'd try to find a spider in an easier position.
Brian V

[chemicalbro]

they look pretty cool to me..............TBH i'd move the spider :)

[a.huhton]

I am just being lazy, it handy to know where your model is at all times.

[marie]

I love the second shot

I had a spider hanging (around) like that.
it was about seven or eight feet off the ground but outside
hanging from a corner wall to another lower wall
great opportunity
I had a chair handy and stood on it.
my arms got tired holding the camera at times, reaching up to get the shots
but every day the spider was there having meals or catching them
well , after taking a few shots different days at odd times,
along comes a butterfly :shock:
and I see the whole thing happening , after it got caught, not as the butterfly fly dropped in ...initially

the spider wrapped it in 'cotton wool' over and over
and then put it aside until later
then ate it all


:(what could I do
(except take pictures)
:lol::oops:


nature must have it's way

:evil:
it would have been too late for me to release the butterfly anyway

:cry:

[racketman]

Marie if you were too late nothing you could do - but I wasnt about to let this damsel be the spiders next meal and plucked it to safety (not that I dont like spiders but....)
http://www.fotosrv.com/img/1130979798damsel_saved_from_web.jpg

[marie]

:shock:
:lol::lol:



:cry::cry::cry:

muttering going away.............
racketman sure knows how to make a body feel better
:cry:

(pull yourself together time)................


:cool:
that's a beautiful photo of the damsel (in distress).......
and who lived to see another day


:p
probably got gobbled up at day break

:evil::lol:

[a.huhton]

I am getting rather concerned about my spider, I have not seen him eat anything in well over a week.

[chemicalbro]

as marie said they wrap em up and keep them for later.............. maybe your spider is just thinking to itself "i'll wrap this bug up until that pest with the camera goes to bed" would you like it if somebody filmed you every time you had lunch? ;)

another thing....... you shouldn't have saved the damselfly....... although we as humans are bogged down by such things as emotion. we should not interfere with nature, if every cute bug got saved by a person where would that leave the spiders.... (starving to death thats where)
the spider is just being a spider....... a tasty damselfly would have kept it going for days (maybe thats why you havnt seen it eat, it caught another one later that you didn't deprive him of :))
or maybe he's just annoyed at you becasue you stole his dinner