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Postby WestCoast on Mon Jan 23, 2006 8:35 pm

SPIDER !!! :D

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Postby Marvin on Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:50 pm

EW! :shock: Nice sharp shot.
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Postby Matt. K on Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:52 pm

EEEK! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:22 pm

Excellent photo WestCoast and really interesting composition that you have accomplished (CS?) :)
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Postby Manta on Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:30 pm

Love it, Westcoast! But I hazard a guess there are several members here who won't!!
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Postby nito on Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:31 pm

WOW nicely captured! So much detail. :shock:
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Postby bloop on Mon Jan 23, 2006 10:54 pm

It's dead I gather? I wouldn't get too close to a live one.

Nice frame shadow effect thingy, looks cool.
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Postby WestCoast on Tue Jan 24, 2006 12:49 am

bloop wrote:It's dead I gather? I wouldn't get too close to a live one.

Nice frame shadow effect thingy, looks cool.
Uuuuh nooo... that thing was very much alive and hanging just outside our kitchen window waiting to catch flies and suck their guts out! :shock:
To take the pic, I had to have the lens (Sigma 50mm 1:1 macro) just a few cm away from the spider.
This task was made much more "interesting" by the fact that it was a windy evening and the thing was moving back and forth right in front of my face!
I used an external flash and shot this at f22 (if I remember correctly)
Used PS to remove part of the background and then added a drop shadow to the legs to give the impression they were "sticking out" of the picture, so to speak.
Not sure if I succeeded entirely, but I found the effect is interesting nonetheless.
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Postby Catcha on Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:06 am

Nice shot very sharp...........Not a fan of spiders was it a big one in real life
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Postby birddog114 on Tue Jan 24, 2006 7:26 am

Hairy & scary :lol: :lol:
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Postby mrbillf on Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:34 am

I would have needed a lens with VR cos I would have been shaking that much. :lol: :lol: Probably wouldn't turn out anyway. Nice capture Westcoast 8)

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