. Actually, insect numbers have been low over here this year, due to the very wet year. It's nice to see something a little different with the water drops, usually they all look pretty much the same, just in different colours, you've managed to get some interesting shapes.
Kernuak said:
The wrapped up fly reminded me of one of my recent ones, it's the next stage onrpt said:So here are 2 pictures I took with the 5D3 and 100L macro lens.
1/200s, f8, ISO 400, Flash auto
Hung out to dry!
1/200s, f8, ISO 400, Flash auto
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That thing you see in the green sac is it inside the spider or behind the sac? What is it? How big was the spider? About 10mm?Kernuak said:The wrapped up fly reminded me of one of my recent ones, it's the next stage onrpt said:
Arianella Spider by Kernuak (avalonlightphotoart.co.uk), on Flickr
Thanks. I'm not sure which bit you mean, but the dark area is the web producing area on the base of the abdomen and the red patch is a marking just behind. According to Wikipedia, females are up to 8mm and males up to 5mm, from memory of the size, I would say it was probably a female. It was taken using the 5D MkIII and 100mm macro (non-IS), handheld with flash and cropped down to just under 4000 pixels to improve composition and give greater emphasis, before being reduced in size via transfer from my website to Flickr. I was probably just short of 1:1, as it gives me more leeway when focusing manually, in case I start leaning forward too far, so probably around 95% of life size. There was a slight breeze, which made the flash an essential part of the kit, as IS would have been useless.rpt said:That thing you see in the green sac is it inside the spider or behind the sac? What is it? How big was the spider? About 10mm?Kernuak said:The wrapped up fly reminded me of one of my recent ones, it's the next stage onrpt said:
Arianella Spider by Kernuak (avalonlightphotoart.co.uk), on Flickr
Wow!
DB said:
Thanks. That was great info. In the pics shown in the links you shared, I can see the red and dark areas in the spider photos taken from the underside - so it is not as gory as I imagined. May be I saw Alien more than thrice...Kernuak said:Thanks. I'm not sure which bit you mean, but the dark area is the web producing area on the base of the abdomen and the red patch is a marking just behind. According to Wikipedia, females are up to 8mm and males up to 5mm, from memory of the size, I would say it was probably a female. It was taken using the 5D MkIII and 100mm macro (non-IS), handheld with flash and cropped down to just under 4000 pixels to improve composition and give greater emphasis, before being reduced in size via transfer from my website to Flickr. I was probably just short of 1:1, as it gives me more leeway when focusing manually, in case I start leaning forward too far, so probably around 95% of life size. There was a slight breeze, which made the flash an essential part of the kit, as IS would have been useless.rpt said:That thing you see in the green sac is it inside the spider or behind the sac? What is it? How big was the spider? About 10mm?Kernuak said:The wrapped up fly reminded me of one of my recent ones, it's the next stage onrpt said:
Wow!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araniella_cucurbitina
http://www.eurospiders.com/Araniella_cucurbitina.htm
DB said:
Thanks, insects and spiders are where my real macro interests lie, although I also photograph the occasional plant and fungi when I find them.
