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...is a dead yellowjacket. Looks like the spiders are finally repaying me for all the times I carried them out of the house on kleenex. Now if I could just get them to eat/pose in a location more convenient to photograph and light.
I am cleaning out my Aperture database, and tripped across this macro that I never processed and/or uploaded. So, here it is.
Canon 30D + Sigma 150mm Macro
Tweaked in Nik Viveza 2
A ginormous hairy spider was waiting in our bathtub the other night. As chief spider wrangler, I had to capture it and release it into the back garden where it could terrorise the birds.
Also named the pholcid house spider, it's often incorrectly referred to as a Daddy Long Legs, which is a term more correctly attributable to the Harvestman. The Harvestman looks similar but it has a rounder body and although it is an arachnid, it has no fangs and is not a spider.
On the other hand, the long-bodied cellar spider is definitely a spider and its favorite food is other spiders; big ones, too. You wouldn't think that considering how delicate it looks but it's true.
My friend, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum, University of Washington, wrote this: Will the real Daddy Long Legs please stand up?.
I was out in the yard today when I spotted a big spider web, thought I would grab macro lens and give it a shot. After getting closer to it for the photo I realized it was a pretty wierd little spider. Dunno?
I saw this tiny spider on the bathroom wall so I grabbed my camera, put on my cheap extension tubes and macro ring filter and snapped a few shots. I didn't edit them, other than resizing.
I took this at a slight angle, putting parts of the spider in sharp focus, with its back-end blurring out.
Forgot to set my camera to raw, so these have been shot using the the smallest jpg. setting which have come out not to bad. I was testing my MT-24EX Diffusers
My garden is covered in these little reminders of the tiny spiders that used to cover it, they all moved out when the big ones moved in.
I was playing with my low price macro (rotated canon fd 50mm 1.4). First time this rotated lens gives me satisfactory result. This shoot gives me motivation to make other macro photos. Version two.