Yes ANOTHER Jumping Spider, those eyes!

[PixelRabbit]

If I could only get them on something other than cement/wood to get some contrasty colours in there.

But ... those eyes get me every time!


IMG_1551 by Judi Smelko, on Flickr

 

[Dracaena]

Maybe just pull of a leaf of some kind of plant and lead it onto it next time.

Grtz,
Pablo

 

[Forkie]

He looks more like a species of wolf spider. His legs look too long for jumping. Nice face though!

 

[Markw]

Yeah. I'd definitely say it's a wolf spider, not a jumper. It's also a bit dark, and quite a ways off.

Mark

 

[Overread]

I'll third the motion that its not a jumping spider and some kind of wolf-spider. Jumpers tend to be much smaller, with shorter legs and smaller front feelers on the whole. Their heads are also a little different (tending to have two big and two small eyes forward whilst this guy has just two forward and a more peeked head whereas the jumper has a flatter head - at least in my experiences of seeing them).

As for the shot you might find you have some luck getting a little extra depth by doing a local levels/curves change. Try selecting the spider alone and adjusting the levels/curves just on the spider itself. Many times this lets you get a little division in the shot between the subject and the background. For this, where background, foreground and middle ground are so similar it shouldn't be a problem to just work on the spider itself and not all the in-focus elements.