Spider's Late-Night Hunt

Here is one of my attempts at macro photography. I used a telephoto lens at the extreme end of its range from several feet away (due to her decision to hang out in high places). The lens was a 70-300 Tamron, and the photos was taken at f/5.6, 30 second exposure, with a flash.

Some pp has been done to crop and sharpen the image, though not much.

Most of my photographs are taken of things which are larger than the camera, so any advice would be appreciated.

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Looks liek you're getting some chromatic aberrations on the white edge.

You'll find you need to shoot at smaller apertures (liek f/9-f/11) to get good DOF in macro.

The chromatic effect is the spider's silk. Agree about the shallow depth of field, though I thought at 5.6 I'd have had enough to get the entire spider - guess I was wrong.