A few spider macros

rG-tom

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Hey guys,

A friend of mine brought his spiders around to have some portraits done :D

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Little bar steward started spinning a web on my pool table!

First attempt at creepy crawlys and macro stuff :)

Tom.
 
Two of them also poo'd on his pool table :P

<3 my spiders

/me thanks rG- for taking the pictures
 
they were all very close syke :) I cant focus with this lens, it's a fixed focus lens, just have to move the camera back and forth.

I don't have a proper macro lens or extension tubes, they were all taken with the canon 35-80mm lens (came with an eos1000F :p) with the front element removed :)

Tom.
 
rG-tom said:
they were all very close syke :) I cant focus with this lens, it's a fixed focus lens, just have to move the camera back and forth.

I don't have a proper macro lens or extension tubes, they were all taken with the canon 35-80mm lens (came with an eos1000F :p) with the front element removed :)

Tom.
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I know :p

I meant you must have been touching it in that picture, heh.
 
gah loads of pussys the lot of you (well the moaning ones :p)

I still don't quite understand why people are so scared of em :p

Cheers for the comments,

Tom.
 
awesome shots, especially as you used a modded non-macro lens!

Lovely little guys, eh?
 
Picture 1: Chilean Rose Spiderling
Pictures 2 and 3: Mexican Red Knee Spiderling
Pictures 3 and 4: Honduras Curly Hair (A few months old)
Picture 5: Mexican Red Rump (A little younger than the curly hair)

i also have a mature male Chilean Rose (which rG- hasnt photographed.. but here's a picture: Clicky)

glad (some of) you liked my spiders :D
 
Does the front element removal work on any lens? interested in trying this myself!

Class pictures, the red pool table is a great call, I don't know if you intended this or thought it was just the best surface to use but "red" and the subject blend well and fuse fear into people who don't like spiders even further.

Awesome stuff xD
 
mrk said:
Does the front element removal work on any lens? interested in trying this myself!

Class pictures, the red pool table is a great call, I don't know if you intended this or thought it was just the best surface to use but "red" and the subject blend well and fuse fear into people who don't like spiders even further.

Awesome stuff xD
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it does work on a few lenses but the canon 35-80 is the most notorious one for it, there was like a 100 page thread on Fred Miranda about it a few years ago.

One problem with this approach is the working distance from the subject is measured in millimetres....meaning I quite often scared the spiders into moving :(

This also creates the problem of light, but I suppose any macro photographers worst nightmare is always going to be light. I positioned 2 flashguns (a metz ct45-cl1 and a canon 430ex) on tripods either side of the pool table, firing from wireless slaves and the metz firing into a soft box and the canon into a white umbrella. This gave me plenty of light, with very few shadows :)

I've just purchased a new set up though that should give me similar results from around a metre away :D I have a 135mm m42 screw mount Carl Zeiss prime lens, proper old school with manual focusing and aperture, and was passing the independant camera dealer next door but 2 to my camera shop (we stopped doing 2nd hand a few years ago) and they had 2 sets of m42 mount extension tubes....for £3 each! Bought them both and it allows me to get seriously close (fill the frame with a staple) but with a decent working distance.


The red of the pool table was a concious decision in that i like the look of a red background on any macro photography, but I hadn't thought of the fear aspect, nice theory work there mrk! :p

Tom.
 
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