Just a couple of macro shots

Higgmeister

I haven't been posting too much lately, been a bit busy. Been shooting more than I have time to process and have a huge backlog.
A brutish fly:

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
1/200s f/11.0 at 100.0mm iso200 with Flash

I believe this is a Harvester spider, but please let me know if I'm wrong:

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
1/200s f/16.0 at 100.0mm iso200 with Flash

Contrast is a bit high but it worked best with the spider. It was a reddish brown and matched very well with the wood siding on my house. This helped separate the two. Also, still working on my sharpening technique as I know I have a long way to go.

Thanks for looking,
Chris

Lord Vetinari

Good shots Chris. That harvestman looks as if it's been gold plated

Higgmeister

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Good shots Chris. That harvestman looks as if it's been gold plated

Hi Brian,
Yeah, it's not quite natural. The photo was pretty flat, color wise, because of the similarity between the spider and house. The coloration was the result of my tweaking, and lots of it. More artsy than scientific, without really being artsy. If it was gold plated, I would not have let this guy get away as he would have spun gold silk:D.

Thanks for looking,
Chris

OK, so it is a Harvestman which is not a spider, but is an arachnid. I had never seen one of these before and at least I didn't call it a "daddy longlegs".

System

Hey sweet daddy loglegs...

Higgmeister

BrothersMedia wrote:

Hey sweet daddy loglegs...

Thanks, I wish he hadn't dissapeared. I would've liked to remove him from his environment and put him in mine for a shoot. Of course I'd put him back once I was done.

Thanks for the comment,
Chris

elfving73

Wow! That fly image is great! Boy oh boy...
... am I happy for the proportional differences between humans and flies. *Haha*
I have a rather twisted "Gary Larsonic"-mind and humor, and the pic of the spider made me smile. I dunno what it is, but I see a rather large body, many long legs, but a very small head with angry looking eyes. It got me thinking of something that someone said (dunno who). "I'm glad I wasn't born in the Jurassic! Imagine the times when the animals was larger than buses, but had brains the size of a wallnut." (Something like that!)

Matty

Higgmeister wrote:

I haven't been posting too much lately, been a bit busy. Been shooting more than I have time to process and have a huge backlog.
A brutish fly:

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
1/200s f/11.0 at 100.0mm iso200 with Flash

I believe this is a Harvester spider, but please let me know if I'm wrong:

Canon EOS 20D ,Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
1/200s f/16.0 at 100.0mm iso200 with Flash

Contrast is a bit high but it worked best with the spider. It was a reddish brown and matched very well with the wood siding on my house. This helped separate the two. Also, still working on my sharpening technique as I know I have a long way to go.

Thanks for looking,
Chris

Higgmeister

elfving73 wrote:

"...Imagine the times when the animals was larger than buses, but had brains the size of a wallnut." (Something like that!)

Matty

Sounds like some of the people I know. Scarrrry:D

Chris