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Postby dviv on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:00 pm

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Postby ATJ on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:05 pm

Nephila are not ugly at all, but I have found them difficult to photograph. You have done a pretty good job here. I think I would like to see more light on the body, perhaps with flash fill.
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Postby dviv on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:09 pm

Thanks Andrew - I'll give that a try next time. The off-shoe cord should let me get the light from the "top" of the spider.

I agree about them being hard to photograph. They seem to always have bright sky behind them :D
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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:11 pm

ATJ - is this a Nephila?

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dviv - a nice capture, we must be inundated on the N/S :lol:

Not trying to hijack your post dviv :oops:
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Postby dviv on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:27 pm

sirhc55 wrote:ATJ - is this a Nephila?
dviv - a nice capture, we must be inundated on the N/S :lol:
Not trying to hijack your post dviv :oops:


No problem :lol: Great Pic!

They seem to like a lemon tree that's in my backyard. There are usually 4 or 5 in the upper branches. Until it rains that is :twisted:
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Postby ATJ on Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:33 pm

sirhc55 wrote:ATJ - is this a Nephila?

She certainly is. A very good shot with a nice background.
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Postby young_einstein on Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:59 am

How big are these are these things? It's hard to get a decent sense of scale from the photos.
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Postby methd on Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:14 am

"The females can measure up to 45 mm while the smaller males measure only 6 mm. "

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/australia ... phila.html
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Postby ATJ on Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:43 am

methd wrote:"The females can measure up to 45 mm while the smaller males measure only 6 mm. "

And that is just the body. The females' leg span can be over 100 mm.
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Postby dviv on Thu Jul 19, 2007 9:47 am

The one in my pic would have filled the palm of my hand (including legs)
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Postby ATJ on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:15 am

dviv wrote:The one in my pic would have filled the palm of my hand (including legs)

But how big is the palm of your hand? And don't say about the size of the spider. :lol:
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Postby dviv on Thu Jul 19, 2007 11:22 am

ATJ wrote:
dviv wrote:The one in my pic would have filled the palm of my hand (including legs)

But how big is the palm of your hand? And don't say about the size of the spider. :lol:


A bit bigger than something that's a bit smaller than my palm :twisted:
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