Spider!!

jonathon94 · Oct 9, 2011

Here are two pictures I recently (about 5 minutes ago) took. I was photographing elements in my backyard and just about ran into this critter. I figured he'd make a good subject to photograph.

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cgipson1 · Oct 9, 2011

nice spider.

on #2.. would have been more interesting if you hadn't tilted the camera to make the spider vertical... the crooked trees in the background look strange. Either more bokeh prefereably to kill the background (its busy), or shoot with the trees straight (level horizon)

jonathon94 · Oct 9, 2011

Thank you for the tips!! I see what you mean now, but I didn't have much choice for a background, it was that or a up close picture of my house

cgipson1 · Oct 9, 2011

you could have also shot with flash and a high sync speed (exposing for the spider)... that would have give a nice dark background to the shot... lots of different ways to go...

jonathon94 · Oct 9, 2011

I admit I didn't think about flash (because there was already plenty of light) but my flash settings are Auto, On, and Slow Synchro. I don't think any of those are what you're talking about is it?

cgipson1 · Oct 9, 2011

with your powershot, you may be a bit limited in what you can do. Try it and see.... if you can get the camera to meter on the spider... flash should work. If not, it might still give a better shot.

jonathon94 · Oct 9, 2011

If I see the spider again tomorrow I might just try again. But yes this Powershot is highly limited, but I don't have the money to upgrade.

tevo · Oct 9, 2011

How the

are you not afraid with that thing living outside your house !?!??!

jonathon94 · Oct 9, 2011

tevo said:
How the

are you not afraid with that thing living outside your house !?!??!

Well I know there is probably bigger ones under my house. I'd kill this one and no doubt there would be plenty to replace it. But the whole time I was taking photos, I kept expecting it to jump on my hand and bite me. That would probably give me a life long fear of spiders lol