Spiderlings

50D, 180/3.5, Handheld
ISO1600 (yep), 1/200 @ f8
Raw in C1, resize and sharpen CS4.
Full Frame.

Hi,

Just back from a few days away, this group of Spiderlings was spotted by Fran this morning in my mothers garden shortly before we started the journey home, hard to resist.

Light was a little low and I was handholding here, so just before I unpacked the tripod from the car I thought I would try some at a high ISO, DoF was always going to be a problem, these tiny spiders (about 2mm max) were constantly on the move so stacking was out so I went for narrow here in the hope that the OOF and in focus spiders conveyed the number....

All the best

Phil

Great shot Phil. Im starting to itch just looking at them. I've seen these around Worcestershire so know how small they are. Its amazing the detail you can see on these. great job!

Phil, really good and nice to see something different. I like the colours and the tones and the part of the shot that are in focus and not.

Ian

Good find indeed and very impressive for ISO1600.

Cheers

Austin

Very impressive Phil, especially at that ISO. The oof ones don't bother me.

Cheers,

Lewis.

Doh, I wish I had unpacked my camera now lol (was feeling lazy). Really pleased you got such a great image of these Phil, considering their minute size!! Well done x

Fran

I think you did a great job here, considering the circumstances and the size. Different but very nice indeed.

Very different, well executed and well spotted. Brilliant.

I had some of these in the garden the other day and thought I'd get some shots, then it rained - very hard......

Lovely detail here.

I was also photographing these the other day Phil, but just couldn't do them justice somehow. This has worked very well, I particularly like the colours and you seem to have got a good proportion of the spiders within the dof.

Matt

Good stuff.
John

great image love the colour something different

Very different image and the better for it,loads going on here,pure nature at her best

Looks like a shot of the inside of Danny's pants! I jest, a great shot , perhaps a difficult senario to isolate one to give a point of interest ?

Hi Phil

Been back to this a couple of times and finally decided I like it.
As Mark says, the main point of focus is not immediately found but after a couple views that doesn't matter. What works well is the 'hectic' feeling I get.

I had a crack at these a few years a go and failed - not as ease as it would seem; well done.

Cheers,
Chris

I really like the sense of chaos here and there are a number of focal points which makes you look around the canvas. Just a thought, but the far left hand side has considerably less activity and I wondered if cropping a little off would increase the intensity of the image?