Post your spiders

Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Re: spiders

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Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Re: spiders

nmccamy said:
Awesome shots! What lens are you using?

I dare you to shoot a Funnel Web that close! ;)
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Haha, unfortunately there are no funnel webs up here for me to try, plus if I was that close one of their fangs would fill up the whole frame lol

​I am using a 90mm Tamron Macro with Raynox DCR-250 close up filter, with home made diffuser and pop up flash on the D800E.
 
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nmccamy

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Re: spiders

About the foam collar.
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Very ingenious! Very impressive! So this is kind of a poor man's ring flash!
Thinking outside the camera! Cool!!!
 
Scott Murray

Scott Murray

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Re: spiders

nmccamy said:
About the foam collar.
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Very ingenious! Very impressive! So this is kind of a poor man's ring flash!
Thinking outside the camera! Cool!!!
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Yes it's a lot cheaper than a ring flash and the foam burns your eyes when its flashed its that bright. I had it larger but more protective species like the paper wasps disliked it and stung it, i have been stung by them once before and that was enough... I have a SB-600 which no longer works via the 'shoe' but will work via TTL (something to do with salt lake and no base and me having a few drinks and pushing it into the salt laden dirt - doesn't mix apparently). But is still firing and I may set it up above or off to one side with a diffuser etc and see how that performs. But I am also thinking I need a longer lens as I am basically on top of these little critters :)
 
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nmccamy

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Re: spiders

"But I am also thinking I need a longer lens as I am basically on top of these little critters".

Us Americans think of you as "down under". ;)
 
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Ironwood

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My Grandma used to call these "Money Spiders", she always used to say "dont hurt the money spider, or you will have bad luck with you money"

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