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Black Widow

Placed her in the freezer... As soon as she got too pissed off at me, she would just start darting around, and I would have to throw a cup over her, and repeat the process.
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Took this that same night. It's a wolf spider.

Lens was a canon 50mm 1.4 reverse mounted to a sigma 105mm f2.8.
>> Anonymous
>>219307
LIVE FOR THE SWAAAARM
>> Anonymous
Woh, shit. Nice, man. (I'd be scared to death to try this, specially on the black widow.) I hope you don't mind me asking.. how did you process that last one? I really like the color/sharpness. There's something a bit odd about it. It seems almost as if it was CG instead of a picture. I mean it in a good way though. Maybe I've been playing too much StarCraft.
>> Anonymous
>>219307
this looks like a teddy bear and i would like to cuddle with it
>> Anonymous
>>219307

my spider sense is reading faked DOF on this one
>> ilkore
>>219311
It's because it's mixed lighting... one was an enhanced spectrum fluorescent bulb, and the other was my on camera flash, being bounced by a sheet of white paper.

>>219313
lol he's a furry little nerf herder

>>219316
you're wrong... it's just a verry shallow dof.
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>219303
I like this one. It's not an overused angle on spiders and it was shot decently.
>>219307
Excellent a addition to this type of shot.

If you feel like killing one to try something different, place it on the surface you want to photograph it on and freeze it. Often enough they won't curl into the death ball and freeze in place. Then while they're are still frozen breath onto it freezing the condensation of your breath to it. It is an interesting effect, hard to get it though. I haven't played with that yet, but I'd suspect that breathing on them while they are still in the freezer would cause the effect to be more easily achieved.
>> Shu
OP, great pictures, but you are fucking loco dude ^^
>> ilkore
>>219343
Anytime I screwed up and left the insect in the freezer too long, they curled up...

I heard that people who cast insects, for paperweights/jewelry, use acetone. Apparently it kills 'em so fast, they'll hold their shape.

>>219347
lol there was a couple times, where she ran off, and i didn't realize immediately... she could have climbed up the lens's and walked right onto my shooting hand. :-0
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>219347
why? Black widows are rather unagressive and as long as you're not a complete idiot in handling it there is very little chance of being bit. Further he's handling them in his home where he has easy medical access. It's not like he's doing this in the field.
>> Anonymous
>>219356
You're right it's a lot safer than 50+ miles away from the nearest hospital but if you corner black widows they will attack so he could still get bitten if it's provoked (which im sure it was) but their first instinct is to run and hide.
>> Anonymous
How much do I need to spend on a lens for a Nikon to do this sort of photography? This is really awesome...
>> Rad !!IpQSryGvPPO
shitballs that's awesome
>> Anonymous
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>>219304
>>219305
These suck bigtime. One might think you ain't got any idea how to compose the scene or control the dof & light.

>>219307
This one is good though.
>> Anonymous
I want to learn how to do this so bad, what lens do I need?
>> NatureGuy !se3A3TwzdY
>>219379
>>219362
http://photo.net/equipment/canon/
http://photo.net/equipment/nikon/

The nikon one is lacking a log the reviews, but the canon one isn't. Basically you can buy a cheap but effective macro lens for 250-300, or you could buy a very cheap bellows (very hard to work with) for as low as 20$ on ebay. The bellows will give you a wider range of enlargement, but require a lot more light and relies heavily on the quality in front of it. You also lose the ability to easily change your aperture and the ability to focus to infinity with a bellows, but you lose the ability to focus to infinity with macro lenses anyway.

Just use photo.net search feature, it should give you any information you need.
>> ilkore
>>219379
the simplest way is just take one of your lens's and reverse mount it.
>> TheGeneral !1S8AR7QbNM
hey man these pics are really awesome, but a question i've always had about reverse mounting lenses: does it result in a 1:1 macro? or no?
>> Anonymous
What, no shots of that characteristic red marking on it's belly? Try sticking it on a glass surface (like a coffee table or, for higher optical quality and the more daring, a UV filter) and get a nice macro shot of that angle.
>> ilkore
>>219400
It can... the wider the lens, the greater the magnification. I'm pretty sure a normal lens, will give you just above 1:1.
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>> TheGeneral !1S8AR7QbNM
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right. got it. gonna try this reverse mounting thing soon.