Found this guy on Wednesday night hiding in a wild rose flower. I got a few shallow photos that I wasn't happy with before he got spooked and hid behind the flower out of reach of my lens. I went back on Thursday and got these ones - some of the only flash photography I've done that I've been happy with. I used my macro mix and the in-camera flash as a fill flash as it was cloudy. The spider is quite small, perhaps a centimeter front to back, but this lens has done some cool things. I've never got light in a spider's eyes before... viewed full size its a bit creepy actually. I tweaked the shadows and highlights a bit to make him pop a bit more and to eliminate some hazy background plants on the right. Quite pleased here!
Same spider, but it tells a bit more of a story. He didn't ever pounce on any of the several beetles in the flower, I think he was posing like this to try and intimidate me, but it certainly looks like he might in this photo. View the larger size ones by clicking the photo, you might be able to make out his eyes a bit better. Apparently crab spiders have a different eye orientation from jumping spiders (six clustered forward and two on the side) this guy has six in a row and two facing backwards over the top of his head - weird!
I took this mostly to help me draw it at a later date but thought it would fit in here as well. Taken at the start of April when cleaning up my house. One of many ants in my house, this one dead.
Inspired by the above ant photo, I took this one on the same day for similar reasons. A dead fly that had been in my truck for a while. For lighting sake I put it in the same place as the ant. I used a bit of fill flash from an external, hotshoe mounted flash. The hairs are kind of creepy when viewed full size - no wonder so many movies make horrifying monsters/aliens look similar to very large insects...
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