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ugly bastard by ~graemo:icongraemo:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Invertebrates

©2004-2009 ~graemo
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you know those sub-pinhead sized orange-red spidery things (mites?) that zoom around with incredible speed?
that's one of them, relaxing on a radiator
magnification 7:1 (cower, mortals!!! :mwahaha:)
the viewfinder was so dark that i had to tape a led-light above it to be able to see enough to focus

the strange shadows that are not only under the legs, but also around the legs from the viewer's perspective and which look like i messed up touching up the background are original, i have no idea why

i tried a 7 frame shift-focus composite to increase the DOF, but gave up after 3 hours

the blur in all my macro shots is getting on my nerves
today i also made some makeshift extension tubes to use the inverted 50mm f/1.4 for higher magnifications, because i want to use a sharper lens for stuff like this, but for 4:1 i ended up with a half-meter construction that was collapse-prone, impossible to aim and incompatible with my macro flash tube :(

seems like there's no way around the Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro for quality high magnification shots, but wouldn't it spoil all the fun of trying?

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~chemicalsno Sep 14, 2004, 6:07:10 PM
wow, I've always wondered what they looked like up close lol. Awesome picture, do you just have the blur in your really really close shots or all of them? Well the picture if awesome anyway, great shot
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~black0 Sep 14, 2004, 6:39:32 PM
I am certainly impressed. That really is one ugly bastard. I'm especially impressed that you managed to get the focus on the body, leaving the fade off on the legs.
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~justinsphotography Sep 14, 2004, 7:05:09 PM
Blurry or not, I am really impressed! Great shot. :D
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~pencilears Sep 14, 2004, 7:35:59 PM
woah this is awesome, the contrast and the fact that it is a tiny little spider you wouldent normaly see is part of what makes this peice so attractive, the lighting that goes through the spider is amazing. :wow:
and the blur dosent detract that much from the picture itself.it just makes you focus on the back of the spider and the eye relaxes there.

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=Tazzy- Sep 14, 2004, 8:44:26 PM
Whoa, way cool! Remind me not to come over to your house. LOL
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~Castigator Sep 14, 2004, 11:39:02 PM
Ye gads he is a strange looking bugger. Shame his legs are so transparent - but that's just nature trying to irritate us :)

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*coxi Sep 15, 2004, 12:13:49 AM
du bist der einzige der mich nur durch technik echt beeindruckt !!
sonst will ich mehr als das.. aber ich mein ! fettt !!!

ich kenn die teile .. hehe.
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`marble911 Sep 15, 2004, 1:43:58 AM
If this is what I think it is, it is a red mite, not a spider. Pretty close systematically, but not the same thing.
And those are incredibly tiny and so fast I've got troubles following them with my eyes, let alone the camera. Quite impressive.
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~Corvi Sep 15, 2004, 3:35:45 AM
Impressiv ...

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~graemo Sep 15, 2004, 4:57:05 AM
it's more evident in the really close ones
but i guess i can't expect wonders from inverting a zoom instead of using a macro prime
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