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Spider
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Copyright: Art Roberts (Art_R) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 194 W: 16 N: 618] (2530)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2009-08-26
Categories: Spiders
Camera: Nikon D 80, AF-S VR Micro Nikkor 105mm 1:2.8G ED, 62mm UV
Exposure: f/22, 1/100 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2009-08-27 7:54
Viewed: 300
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hi Folks , today I have this spider to share , I hope you will forgive the very general ID I have, but spider is about all of the information I have for this subject.

:-(

as I have mentioned before my patience for photography is much greater than my patience for searching for Identifications....

I found this little beauty on my walk through the woods yesterday , light was not in my favor , driving up ISO sensitivity and playing havoc on many of my photos.

When I came across this little Girl (guessing on that by size , never really got a good look at the pedi palps to feel certain ;-) , I saw a great lighting opportunity , though light was rather low it was sitting under this leaf somewhat back light , and getting a good angle on it saw a nice distant background that would blur nicely , its translucence was just soaking in the light giving this highlighted appearance.

my PP work on this was a bit more extensive than usual , mostly centered on noise removal , I did that in Capture NX first then saved as 8 bit tiff and moved over to photoshop Elements for a second noise removal , and some spot healing too , my d-80 shows a bit of dust on the sensor , but I had to pay more attention to hot pixels , there are a few of them at 800 ISO... , I also used an auto contrast , then re-saved as tif and moved back to Capture NX for a final noise removal and a bit of sharpening / resizing...

the D-80 is just not quite the same performer at higher ISO as the D-300 , is...

I could have used a flash and lowered my ISO , but that would have relieved the nice lighting situation , and I have been very stubborn this year about paying attention to shooting natural light , lighting is my main focus this year , and I would not learn much if I put that aside at every difficult shot :-)

regards
Art
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  • Great 
  • roges Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 590 W: 0 N: 497] (3004)
  • [2009-08-27 7:58]

Hi Art,

I came back! After a few days holiday in Croatia are here again.
I hope you like it and my photos. I tried to pose me butterflies, but ... not so good as you.
This macro yours is beautiful, congratulations.
Excellent description provided.
Best regards,
Adrian

nice closeup, TFS Ori

Hi,
One of the fine spider images that I have seen here, excellent lighting and beautiful composition. tfs.
nagraj.v

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  • uleko Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2986 W: 162 N: 929] (2735)
  • [2009-08-31 7:43]

Hello Art,
A great shot showing this Spider hanging on to the leaf. Fine details and I like the light and the colours. Most of all I like the composition!
TFS and regards, Ulla

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