Red Admiral and Jumping Spider-ider-ider

[pgriz]

Love both shots, Judi! But curious minds want to know, did you do the spider shot with ambient light, or did you use a flash? There are some bright highlights in the spider eyes that imply you used a flash, but the overall light seems somewhat narrow, so could also be ambient... I've been chasing jumpers outside as well, but don't have anything worthwhile to post, so I'm a little envious at your success with this.

 

[PixelRabbit]

Thanks Jaomul and Pgriz

It is just ambient light, he cooperated and faced into the sun for me
Shot settings are : 1/640 F8 ISO200
I have some shots on my card that I used flash. They were taken on the glass later in the day of one feeding on a fly, hopefully they turned out! Flash can be tricky for me since I only have OB flash right now. I have to crop these images bigtime (this is 800 on the long side), so things have to be very right SOOC and I find it harder to do that when I use the OB flash.

Keep at them, it is well worth the challenge, they are really neat creatures.