Jumping Spider Reflection

[Lumen Miner]

Hi all!

Was happy with the way this shot came out,to an extent.

Please critique it. Good, bad, ugly, I can take it.

I didn't want to, but had to resort to, removing floaters on the water in Gimp.

I'm still hooked on this "Glowing" thing. Well anyway I like the effect it gives the scene.

This image was brighter, yet I felt the darker mood more appealing.
I have one with him looking up at the lens, yet he looks more lifeful checking out his reflection. :)

I am not happy with his front leg looking a lil blown still.
I would have liked the reflection clearer, yet his movements were preventing it.

Please let me know what you think of it.

Cheers!

[lacad01]

I love it, that is fantastic man :thumbsup:

[dpastern]

That's turned out quite well Mitchell. Lighting is still not perfect, but you're getting some reasonbly sharp shots.

Dave

[Lumen Miner]

Thanks mate. Appreciated! :)



Lighting was a bit of an issue, trying not to get the water blown out. I went for less rather than more. This image had the curves adjusted, it was well lit in the original.

I wouldn't say this is a particularly sharp shot, infact it is very OOF.

I am actually going to take it as a learning experience. I know now I can do it better next time.

Thanks for the feedback!! :)

[Lumen Miner]

A larger Jumper in a more traditional shot.

Natural lighting, F22, one handed as I was pulling the branch down. :)

Lighting is still not quite right, but I was very happy with the DOF on it.

[dpastern]

No, it is is reasonably sharp. The eyes and hairs on the pedipalps are pretty good. You'll never get the entire spider in the sharp focus range.

Dave

[Lumen Miner]

I realised I cropped the eyes out of the reflection. Heres another version, straight out of the camera. No PP except for removing floaters.
I think I find this version more appealing. Actually it is probably much better, now that I think about it.

[Bassnut]

Excellent, looks "narrowband"ish ;-)the colour saturation is better on the 1st one, and to my untrained eye, the right leg leg area is a bit saturated (brightness)?. I havent seen a macro pic quite like it lighting wise, very nice.

[Jen]

:scared::scared: OMG what the hell is that thing :scared3:

Awsome pic but ewwwww to the ugly hairy creepy thing :eek::eek:

[Lumen Miner]

:lol: :lol: :lol: I was wondering why you don't venture much into the "terrestrial/macro" scene on this site. Now I know... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Very funny indeed!!
:)

[dpastern]

Jen, it's a Jumping Spider, Salticidae family. They are amazing spiders, very intelligent, probably the most intelligent of all spiders. They are very small, the largest no bigger than 2cm, on average around 8mm in body length. They won't hurt you too. They are very curious, and very friendly, non aggressive spiders. If you want to start taming a fear of Arachnophobia, these are the best spiders to work with imho. Been there, done that.

Dave

[Jen]

:lol::lol: yep thats why i only come in here when ive had a few cans and think i am brave enough to face those god dam ugly hairy scary things ewwwwww :lol::scared3:
Spider spray anyone :help:

[Jen]

:eyepop: 2cm my butt :rofl: it looks like its bigger than my head LMAO :lol: And OMG the eyes he staring me out from all angles :rolleyes:

Oh hell no i couldnt play with one of those OMG its soooo ugly :help:
Why is it glowing :question:

[Lumen Miner]

That's funny 'cause to me he is adorable!! Very cute and furry like a lil' teddy bear.

It's not "Glowing", just its skin is reacting to the exposure. The white of the skin gives a glowing effect under some exposures conditions....
Well to tell you the truth I am not sure, but they don't "glow in the dark".

I have noticed on different spiders different apendages and body segments "glow" differently...

Weird, I am still trying to figure it out myself. :)

[Jen]

:eyepop: a cute furry little teddy bear :eyepop: NOT....... :lol::lol:
i will never look at a teddy the same ever again :rofl:

What sort of teddys do you have they are evil haha

[Lumen Miner]

Well... I tell myself that anyway, especially when they jump on my face. :) they really are the teddy bears of spider species, very sociable indeed.

[lacad01]

Just noticed the current run of postage stamps has jumping spiders featured :)

[Lumen Miner]

Really??!! Nice! Are they "good" images? I will have to check them out!

[lacad01]

They look ok for postage stamp size :)
I normally don't take notice of stamps on incoming mail (ironic since I used to collect as a kid) but this one caught my eye given there's been a few posts here recently on jumping spiders.

[dpastern]

Mitchell, I just noticed your natural light Jumper shot - if I can suggest avoiding such deep DOF such as f22. It'll create diffraction issues (you'll get more DOF at the cost of image sharpness) and it makes it far harder on you ISO and shutter speed wise. Better to stick around f8-f11 on modern DSLR sensors imho.

Dave

[Lumen Miner]

:rofl: Ok, then. f8-f11 it is!! I don't know where I got f22 in my head from. I think it was a tutorial on the web, that showed diffraction issues arising after the f22 mark. They were illustrating that after that, image sharpness starts suffering. They made a pretty good argument on the case, showing a ruler at all f-stops. I guess a ruler is not the same as 3d insects with colours though.

I'll start using f8-f11, from now on. Cheers mate!! :)

If you end up reading this, can I ask? What ISO should I be using? I have been using 200 for all my shots. I think though, I should be using higher.

[dpastern]

Probably ISO 200 to 400. I mostly shoot at ISO 400. There's no real right or wrong way with photography though. I'm just making suggestions based my extensive experience.

Dave

[ving]

really interesting mitchell... i like the uncropped version better (yeah you cropped the eyes out in the first) :)

[Lumen Miner]

IMHO the real right way to take photo's, would be to follow the suggestions of someone with "extensive experience". I'll start using 400.



:rofl: I didn't realise till I had posted, that I cropped the most important bit of the reflection out. :)

Thanks for you comment!