Spiders are always difficult subjects so this works well.
That has to be one of the best head on shots showing all the eyes I have seen Brian, well done.
So it seems she has four eyes to aid wrapping captured prey and/or eating it, two for 'look out' duty and another pair straight ahead to see where she's going. Fascinating.
Cheers,
Dave
Nice shot.
I have developed the ability to not worry about what might be under our bed. The Tamron 90mm 272E extends for focusing. With it fully extended at 1x1 to 1x1.1 mag the back of my camera is about 9 inches away from the subject while the lens is about 4 inches away.
I have shot this species quite often with my Sony Alpha a58. The excellence of this shot is in large part due to my moving upscale to the a68.
The a68 has really allowed me to take it to the next level. Have you noticed that you can see through the clear outer part of the large eye at the rear?
Now you have raised my curiosity I'm going to try to find out how spiders use their eyes. No one seems to really know what they see. But here s a video showing how a spider controls their large eyes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvN_ex95IcE
Last edited by JBW; 14th June 2018 at 12:18 AM.
Fascinating video (thanks) and interesting, following a couple of others linked from there that the Jumping Spiders have the bigger pair as the Forward Facing ones, unlike your Tree spider.
Spiders are curious creatures. I went out yesterday and shot her again from a different angle. Maybe not quite as good a shot but i found i had my reflection in 6 out of 8 eyes.