Post your Spiders

[ktuli]

You'll still get odd looks either way...

I really like that shot - very nice with the morning light, and a rather unique spider pose.

Welcome to CiC.

- Bill

[Letrow]

A tiny spider (2-3 mm) in my garden, doing some necessary repair work

[Seriche]

Thanks, Bill,

Is there no place of refuge?...

Those spiders are great at holding all kinds of excellent poses. Trouble is that I have hundreds of shots of them either out of focus or blurry. So many could-have-beens

Thanks for the welcome, Bill, I've been happily wandering around the site all afternoon. All kinds of treasures to be found

Seri

[Seriche]

A tiny spider (2-3 mm) in my garden, doing some necessary repair work

What beautiful colours! I keep trying to get those small ones but never clearly. Are you using a tripod?

Seri

[Letrow]

I prefer not to use a tripod, because I walk around looking for insects or flowers, so most of the time I rely on having enough sunshine. This was shot at F/16 and 1/350 with ISO2500. I think the combination of F stop and shutterspeed made it a bit darker. The purple in the background is lavender.

[Seriche]

I prefer not to use a tripod, because I walk around looking for insects or flowers, so most of the time I rely on having enough sunshine. This was shot at F/16 and 1/350 with ISO2500. I think the combination of F stop and shutterspeed made it a bit darker. The purple in the background is lavender.

Oh my goodness! I can see where I've been going wrong. I never go over F/11, or set my ISO higher than 400 for close ups, even in dim light. I also rarely use a tripod either, for all kinds of reasons. I'll work with a smaller aperture and higher ISO tomorrow morning and see what transpires.

Many thanks for sharing your settings with me, Peter.

Goedenacht,

Seri

[Letrow]

Oh my goodness! I can see where I've been going wrong. I never go over F/11, or set my ISO higher than 400 for close ups, even in dim light. I also rarely use a tripod either, for all kinds of reasons. I'll work with a smaller aperture and higher ISO tomorrow morning and see what transpires.

Many thanks for sharing your settings with me, Peter.

Goedenacht,

Seri

Seri, F/11 or F/13 should be fine as well I think, but lower than that would give me worse results, due to the limited DOF at such short distances from the subject. I use Manual settings nowadays, because the shutter speed is important to me (not for this spider, he sat still) when I try to capture fast moving insects.
On the ISO, I have to admit that I am blessed with the Nikon D7000, who adjusts ISO automatically, up to a preset maximum.
I took about five shots of this tiny spider and this is the only one that came out sharp enough.

I like your Dutch

[ktuli]

Is there no place of refuge?...

Those spiders are great at holding all kinds of excellent poses. Trouble is that I have hundreds of shots of them either out of focus or blurry. So many could-have-beens

Nope - no refuge. But we're a little more accepted here...

And welcome to the club of 'could-have-beens'... I've got my own stack of those shots too!

- Bill

[gcowan]

Nope - no refuge. But we're a little more accepted here...

And welcome to the club of 'could-have-beens'... I've got my own stack of those shots too!

- Bill

Hmmm.... I am sorry to say a funnel web spider wandered into our house on Saturday night and i reached for something long to dispatch it with rather than a camera. So another one that might have been.

Graham

[Letrow]

Hmmm.... I am sorry to say a funnel web spider wandered into our house on Saturday night and i reached for something long to dispatch it with rather than a camera. So another one that might have been.

Graham

Mean little beastie, I can't really blame you. I'd be afraid with that around.

[gcowan]

Mean little beastie, I can't really blame you. I'd be afraid with that around.

Yes but we hardly ever see them.

We get a lot of different spiders and only one other is dangerous. I have posted this fellow before... I don't know what he is but he wraps himself in a leaf and holds onto the web and when it vibrates he rushes out and grabs his prey.





Graham

[Seriche]

Nope - no refuge. But we're a little more accepted here... :
- Bill

I'm quite content to seek sanctuary here. 'Accepted' is fine – 'understood' is asking too much

And welcome to the club of 'could-have-beens'... I've got my own stack of those shots too!

I've long thought that it might be interesting to have a thread devoted to 'the ones that got away'

Seri

[Seriche]

Seri, F/11 or F/13 should be fine as well I think, but lower than that would give me worse results, due to the limited DOF at such short distances from the subject. I use Manual settings nowadays, because the shutter speed is important to me (not for this spider, he sat still) when I try to capture fast moving insects.

Thanks for that. I've been using manual settings from the start as I wanted to learn how everything works. I have a dream of one day being able to do action macro shots using natural light, but I fear that the laws of physics will forbid it

On the ISO, I have to admit that I am blessed with the Nikon D7000, who adjusts ISO automatically, up to a preset maximum.

And what is this....'Neekon' you speak of?

I like your Dutch

Ik wil graag Nederlands spreken, mais Je parle seulement le français, et quand je suis éméché, et aussi très mal...

I'm transfering my past photos from PC to iMac via external hard drive. I'll be posting a plea for help tomorrow in another section so that I can learn how to get them into Lightroom. Then I hope to be able to contribute more spiders and suchlike. I'm already feeling guilty for using too many words and not enough images

Until,

Seri

[Seriche]

Yes but we hardly ever see them.

We get a lot of different spiders and only one other is dangerous. I have posted this fellow before... I don't know what he is but he wraps himself in a leaf and holds onto the web and when it vibrates he rushes out and grabs his prey.





Graham

That is a beautiful image, Graham. It has a fantastic abstract quality to it, and I love the legs peeking out

We have the tube web spider, Segestria florentina over here and she hides herself in a tunnel. I used to show my daughter how to gently tickle the silk trip wires to draw her out. It was important to mimic the movement of a small insect. She wouldn't bother to rush out for any other kind of movement. Your image reminded me of those days

Seri

P.S. I had to go looking for your spider. Could he be one of these?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonognatha_graeffei

[gcowan]

Thank you Seri. It is nice to know that I awoke such memories. The photo was taken as a first experiment with a new Makro lens, and for a competition on this site, Nature Abstracts so the slight abstraction was purposeful.

I am really pleased that we have such an interesting spider. I have seen the lonely leaves in the garden and just assumed that they were all the same, and I did not realise that the males and females co-habited. That is often a very dangerous thing to do for male spiders.

Graham

[Seriche]

You're very welcome, Graham. There's so much more to see when looking down a macro lens, isn't there. We miss so much the way we rush through life. I'll take a look at Nature Abstracts later - sounds like a fascinating link - thanks

As for your spider, I was amazed to read about the co-habitation too, but it did make me smile to learn that it's the female who always lives at the top of the leaf

What kind of macro lens have you bought?

Seri (Just millimetres away from posting another spider)

[ktuli]

As for your spider, I was amazed to read about the co-habitation too, but it did make me smile to learn that it's the female who always lives at the top of the leaf

Actually, I'm learning that many spiders cohabitate a web (at least for a portion). I posted this series of some sheet web spiders complete with mating behavior a few weeks ago. Prior to mating, the pair would share the web for several weeks. I also recently had a pair of different spiders sharing a web in my garage for a couple weeks before mating and the male getting devoured. The babies just hatches, so I'll have to see if I can get a good shot of them (they're not in a very good location).

Seri (Just millimetres away from posting another spider)

Shouldn't that be "just a fraction of a second away from posting another spider"?

- Bill

[gcowan]

What kind of macro lens have you bought?

Seri (Just millimetres away from posting another spider)

It is a Zeiss 100mm f2 Makro ZE. Very nice.
Graham

[Seriche]

Actually, I'm learning that many spiders cohabitate a web (at least for a portion). I posted this series of some sheet web spiders complete with mating behavior a few weeks ago. Prior to mating, the pair would share the web for several weeks. I also recently had a pair of different spiders sharing a web in my garage for a couple weeks before mating and the male getting devoured. The babies just hatches, so I'll have to see if I can get a good shot of them (they're not in a very good location.

You mean...he took her out for dinner instead of preparing a little something himself? And to top it all he's already tucked into that meal beforehand...

That's a smashing set of photos and I really hope you get a shot of the hatchlings.

Funny things, those nuptial gifts. In general, the bigger it is, the longer the male gets to mate. And we think we're so different from the lower lifeforms

Shouldn't that be "just a fraction of a second away from posting another spider"?

Well, that depends.....would you like to discuss the space-time continuum now or later?

Seri

[Seriche]

It is a Zeiss 100mm f2 Makro ZE. Very nice.
Graham

I've only ever used the Canon 100 and Sigma 105, but I have a Zeiss pair of binoculars and used to work looking down a top-notch Zeiss microscope. The optics have got to be superb. You must be delighted

Seri