Photo of the Year 2009: In the view of a Jumping spider

[morfa]

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Shooting data: Fujifilm S5pro, Sigma 150mm f2.8, Raynox DCR-150 :: 1s, f16, ISO100 :: tripod, MLU, CR

August 25, 2009 :: Stockholm, Sweden

The same jumping spider as in my last post. It looks like they use multicoating on their lenses Thirteen shots stacked in Helicon focus.

Cheers!

/morfa

[John Miller]

Wonderful detail, morfa! Is that you reflected in the eyes?

[morfa]

Yes, I considered waving but decided against it

[Thorn]

Excellent... much better than previous - it's the one of the best foto of jumping spider which I ever seen

[William]

Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm speechless... what can I do... but to say congrats.

[susanto]

I just can't say any comments, everything is perfect..

[eurythyrea]

Hey, morfa, how do you fix the always-moving spiders for thirteen shots? I know that focus stacking has problems with shifted object such as legs or antennas.
Thanks for sharing, Nikola

[yuri_p]

You mean multicoating on their eyes
Well done!

[pointr]

morfa, congratulations. Agree with the well deserved comments above. You have 'raised the bar' again to give us something to strive for.

[morfa]

Thanks for the comments! I won't pollute the forum with another post of this spider but if you're interested you're welcome to have a look at these as well: Portrait orientation, looking up, Portrait orientation, looking down.

eurythyrea> I don't think there is a way to fixate these guys. Not in a harmless way at least. These were shot early in the morning and the spider was much less active than they usually are. It moved from time to time but I then I just started over shooting from the beginning of the stack. Some attempts turned out well while others were ruined by subject movement. Also, slight subject movement isn't always devastating to the stacking results. For instance if a leg is moved while it is out of focus it doesn't matter as long as it's reasonably still when it's in focus.

[eemjay]

Wow superb shot.... like the way it sits there for you to shoot

[hrishi]

The details are truly fantastic, as are the other elements!

[JoBrog]

Hi,
"Quadroscopic" details, nice to see four photographers in the spider eyes!!!!
Great work!
Jorge

[zshunfa]

wow!! another great from you morfa.. agree wth u that the spider have multicoated "lenses" some more is different coat :p greenish and blueish... look just BEAUTIFUL

thanks for the tips on how to "fix" the spider in HARMLESS way yea, i support this as we don't want to hurt any bugs that we love to shoot

[tomatito]

verynice..not as good as your fly in photo of the week but very nice jumper