A Dang Spider Showed Up

Today, in the midst of all the 9/11 coverage and a visit by my son and daughter, I happened to notice a spider squeezed into a bit of a corner just off my deck.

I had to wrangle my 30D with the 100mm Macro lens on my tripod just to get an angle to see then thing at all, and it never changed poses for me and there just wasn't room to even get a flash cable on unless I did something really strange, so most of the shots got tossed to to a slow shutter speed, but some came out OK. And, I was able to get close enough to get the shots fully framed!

Here's one that I don't feel bad about -- it just looks a bit blurry enlarged:

Update:

As one last step, I decided to go over the last sharper one with the Lightroom local adjustment brush set to 100% sharpening and went over the detailed areas. Not so impressive at the full frame level, but the close crop comes out pretty crisp:

Came out well !
brian v.

Nice shots, from my perspective.

It is good do see the background to how a shot was taken, and hence the difficulties.

Hey, thanks guys and, yeah, if we were only allowed to post about perfect, then, well, how boring!

Very nice, the edited versions look great.

Very sharp

Well, thanks, I probably need to go through a whole bunch of photos and get caught up with sharpening!

great shots.......recently got a shot of a black widow with my g12 but I didn't have the nerve to get that close with it

Really nice set Tony. Amazingly sharp and detailed, and the light is perfect.

tonylong wrote in post #13086714
And you can see how the spider was perched up close to a wall, limiting my options:

im guessing you dont like spiders that much??? pfffttt.. that guy isnt even close to ya!!!!

nice captures though...
i cant get a good pic of ours.. he only comes out at night... and is right outside our sliding glass door.. right in front of the back porch light... biggin too!!!!!

i think you did great! wish i could do that...

They always choose the least accessible corner/ledge...went to Murphy's school of photography :P

Nice shots you got from the session, the close body crop does how some nice hair detail

Hey thanks all! It was an interesting little project, and, with a bit of a breeze and the lousy angle, I'm glad I got at least a couple shots where that detail could stand up to "close scrutiny"!

And fortunately the light was, in fact, pretty decent -- 1/6 sec, f/16, ISO 200, slow on the shutter speed, but I managed, and ISO 200 is pretty clean with the trusty ol' 30D!