A few spiders

kyrontf · May 17, 2012

Just some spiders found over the last few days. C&C welcome!

1. Crab spider. Possibly Xysticus sp., but not positive.

2. Little male jumper, about 3mm long. No ID yet. I was photographing a beetle when I suddenly found this fellow crawling around on my hand. I haven't a clue how he got there, but I immediately started taking shots. He was very inquisitive.

3. Another unidentified little jumper, slightly smaller than #2. This one had a way of moving about that I've never seen in a jumper before. It would scoot around a little, stop, wave its front legs, and repeat the process.

4. Same spider as above.

5. Tibellus sp.

Buckster · May 17, 2012

If you start doing these with focus stacking, you'll turn into a monster macro shooter!

LizardKing · May 17, 2012

Great set! #1, #3 and #5 are my favourites. The OOF legs in front are killing me in the other tow. But anyway, nice shots! Like them a lot.

Buckster said:
If you start doing these with focus stacking, you'll turn into a monster macro shooter!

By the way, you need several exposures focusing different parts of the picture, in order to do this, right? Probably not easy with moving subjects like spiders, but I've seen the results and it's incredible!

Buckster · May 17, 2012

LizardKing said:
Buckster said:

If you start doing these with focus stacking, you'll turn into a monster macro shooter!

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By the way, you need several exposures focusing different parts of the picture, in order to do this, right? Probably not easy with moving subjects like spiders, but I've seen the results and it's incredible!

Absolutely correct.

kyrontf · May 17, 2012

Buckster said:
If you start doing these with focus stacking, you'll turn into a monster macro shooter!

Thanks! I agree, the jumper shots really didn't have enough DoF. Usually jumpers will stop long enough to get a stack of at least three or so shots, but these two didn't want to at all. :lmao: #3 is actually an attempted manual focus stack (legs and palps moved), but only from two shots and they don't have quite enough overlap.

LizardKing said:
Great set! #1, #3 and #5 are my favourites. The OOF legs in front are killing me in the other tow. But anyway, nice shots! Like them a lot.

Thanks.