Spider

PixelRabbit · Jan 25, 2012

This is the shot I'm most proud of ....out of every single shot I've taken ..... because upon finding him in my basement I calmly(ish) went upstairs, grabbed the camera and came back for a shot.... and didn't run SCREAMING LIKE A GIRL!!!! like usual *shudder* spiders scare the snot out of me!!!
Thank goodness I got this "acceptable" one on the first shot. I think I'll work on improving my technique etc... on less scary bugs for now.

Bellaluna · Jan 25, 2012

Ew. Pretty good picture, but ew. I don't know why I open these threads with spider pictures! :lol:

jriepe · Jan 25, 2012

Since I see your photos are ok to edit I did some minor tweaks on this one. The main thing it needed in my opinion was to be cropped. It is on my photo site just to post it here but I will remove it in a couple days or even sooner if you so desire.

Jerry

PixelRabbit · Jan 25, 2012

Bellaluna said:
Ew. Pretty good picture, but ew. I don't know why I open these threads with spider pictures!

lol thanks Bellaluna! Agree, the cropped image... while looks better .. is reeeeeally creeping me out!

jriepe said:
Since I see your photos are ok to edit I did some minor tweaks on this one. The main thing it needed in my opinion was to be cropped. It is on my photo site just to post it here but I will remove it in a couple days or even sooner if you so desire.

Jerry

Ah you have found my special weakness... cropping ... yours looks uncomfortably better! thanks for the edit Jerry

and no worries on hosting the image.

tirediron · Jan 25, 2012

Well captured.

Ron Evers · Jan 25, 2012

Good one!

No shadows from your flash.

PixelRabbit · Jan 25, 2012

tirediron said:
Well captured.

Thanks

Ron Evers said:
Good one!

No shadows from your flash.

Thanks, I held my breath, lined it up as best I could because I figured the flash was going to be harsh and the second he moved I amscrayed lol

LadyJasmine · Jan 25, 2012

I'd be screaming like a girl... you're nuts for getting that close to that thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But nice shot.

Joel_W · Jan 25, 2012

Nice spider shot. The crop really adds quite a lot to the composition.

Spiders don't scare me, but snakes sure do.

PixelRabbit · Jan 25, 2012

LadyJasmine said:
I'd be screaming like a girl... you're nuts for getting that close to that thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But nice shot.

Confirmed nuts ... lol
Thanks

Joel_W said:
Nice spider shot. The crop really adds quite a lot to the composition.

Spiders don't scare me, but snakes sure do.

I agree, makes me wonder what other good crops I'm missing in the shots I've taken.
Snakes are no prob for me so I'll take care of the snakes if you take care of the spiders K ? lol

blackrose89 · Jan 25, 2012

Joel_W said:
Nice spider shot. The crop really adds quite a lot to the composition. Spiders don't scare me, but snakes sure do.

I really don't have a fear of that stuff. The only thing that scares me are palmetto bugs. If you haven't been to Florida you've never really seen a cockroach. Palmettos are about 3 times the size of a regular cockroach! I remember the first I saw a regular cockroach and thought it a baby palmetto lol!

Ocho_1 · Jan 25, 2012

lol, only thing I'm scared of are bees & wasp.

spiders, snakes, gators, lions & tigers I have no problem with. I had a small spider living in my truck for a while there.

In fact a couple of months ago I was on my job site (roadway construction) & I was wlaking through some semi-tall grass by the highway & a small snake struck me. I didn't really bite me, cause it hit my boot. Scared the hell out of the other two guys I was with, lol. I think the way they screamed & jumped scared me more than the actual snake.

Bellaluna · Jan 25, 2012

blackrose89 said:
The only thing that scares me are palmetto bugs. If you haven't been to Florida you've never really seen a cockroach. Palmettos are about 3 times the size of a regular cockroach!

Ew, I don't like palmetto bugs either. They're like cockroaches on steroids. Then again, so are all the other bugs in Florida. But I really hate spiders *shudder*.

blackrose89 · Jan 25, 2012

Bellaluna said:
blackrose89 said:

The only thing that scares me are palmetto bugs. If you haven't been to Florida you've never really seen a cockroach. Palmettos are about 3 times the size of a regular cockroach!

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Ew, I don't like palmetto bugs either. They're like cockroaches on steroids. Then again, so are all the other bugs in Florida. But I really hate spiders *shudder*.