Paul Iddon (www.pauliddon.co.uk)
Wolf Spider
I took this on my Sigma 18-50mm lens at 41mm with a 21mm extension tube. ISO was 200 and shutter speed was 1/200sec @ f/11.0 with manual focus, hand held crouched down by the garden pond !!! Distance from the spider - about 2 inches... The spider is less than half-an-inch long!
My eyes are not brilliant when it comes to manual focusing, so I took 3 shots in burst mode on my EOS 400D. I thought it was more luck than judgement that the focus is as close to being on that it is...
Wolf Spider
I took this on my Sigma 18-50mm lens at 41mm with a 21mm extension tube. ISO was 200 and shutter speed was 1/200sec @ f/11.0 with manual focus, hand held crouched down by the garden pond !!! Distance from the spider - about 2 inches... The spider is less than half-an-inch long!
My eyes are not brilliant when it comes to manual focusing, so I took 3 shots in burst mode on my EOS 400D. I thought it was more luck than judgement that the focus is as close to being on that it is...