Jumping Spider with Prey

Sgt. Pepper · Post by **Sgt. Pepper** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 7:01 pm

It's been a while since my last post here.
Good to see that all macroholics here are doing really fine.

Here's a Jumping Spider image taken from my last trip to the Phils.

Cheers!
edsel

Details of the set-up can be found HERE.
f16, 1/180s, ISO100 (full frame)

nzmacro · Post by **nzmacro** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 1:20 am

Just have to love those eyes my friend, great to see you

. Excellent article there. Hows Graham doing over there. I must visit more often. Would you submit that one and let us use that as well. Its EXCELLENT !!!

Great details and excellent eye to .........eye'sssss view

All the best Edsel.

Danny.

paul · Post by **paul** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:57 pm

Beautiful result from cleverly designed and basic means! My own attempts with reversed lenses have not quite reached that standard, but recently I 'confronted' a jumping spider and found myself (well, my lens) reflected in all its eyes. So my question is: what are the 2 minor specs of light? The big rectangle obviously is the flash as described in you very interesting article. But there are 2 more small dots.

Thanks for the image and the article. Food for thought.

Cheers, Paul

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:37 pm

That is one hairy dude. Reminds me of Frez

Sorry Frez I couldn't resist.

Great image however. Thanks Edsel

nephiliim · Post by **nephiliim** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 1:04 pm

how do you get so close to them? When I try that, they seem to smell me or something.. and run or jump away

paul · Post by **paul** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:06 am

nephiliim wrote:how do you get so close to them? When I try that, they seem to smell me or something.. and run or jump away

My limited experience with jumping spiders is that they are quite curious, and after a couple of shots they jump on the lens (when working with reversed lens setup at a distance of about 2cm)

Sgt. Pepper · Post by **Sgt. Pepper** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 1:43 am

Sorry for the late reply...
Thanks for the comments!

Danny: Graeme, not Graham.

He's doing fine at NPS.

Paul: good question, though I'm not really sure where that two small catchlight came from. It could be a reflection from somewhere.

Cheers!
edsel

twebster · Post by **twebster** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 10:11 am

Hi ya' edsel

Thank you so much for allowing us to use your image on the front cover of www.photomacrography.net. I'm sure visitors to our site will enjoy it as much as we have in our galleries.

Best regards as always,

gunn · Post by **gunn** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:26 pm

congrats sgt pepper. i knew it was a good shot the first time i saw it. subsequently, i did take a few shots myself of a similar spider with an almost similar prey, but never felt inclined to have it posted here because your image was superior to those i had taken. all the best.

gunn