Macro shots - Spider feeding. What do you think

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:29 pm

Here's the link. One of my favorite Macro sessions so far

http://photos.korrupted.net/thumbnails.php?album=16

Sergeant Thorne · Post by **Sergeant Thorne** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:44 pm

Cool!

SilverFJ · Post by **SilverFJ** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:51 pm

yeah i worked at petco and got to watch the turrantulas eat it's cool

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:07 pm

I can't tell what's food and what's spider... but it all looks disgusting nonetheless.

World War Woodi · Post by **World War Woodi** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:30 pm

Very nice job, some of the other pictures on the site drew my eye also, keep it up.

http://photos.korrupted.net/albums/wpw- ... G_0115.jpg

I like this one very much.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:22 am

Thrawn, try shooting your pics at a faster speed than what your meter is telling you. The result as in your pic that woodi likes will be a more color saturated (intense) lily and the background will be much darker with the end result a more striking photo.

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:43 am

Wood, I'll have to reprocess that picture and the others in that gallery. Those were batched processed by Photoshop, which, for some reason tends to wash out the colors a bit when batch converting my raw files. When I get back home this evening, I'll try to rememeber to show off the actual shot.

Ever since then, I've been batch processing the raw files in the Canon software first before editing in Photoshop. Photoshop is fine when I do them one at a time though. One of those things I've learned as a newb

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 8:17 am

those are great, man.

Phantasmagirl · Post by **Phantasmagirl** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 9:27 am

Very nice! if you're looking for constructive criticism, with macro, it's best to shoot with a small aperture (high fstop number.. like f8 on most digital cameras, or even higher if you can) because it will increase your depth of field and make more things in focus. I have a similar series of spider feeding shots myself...

http://www.deviantart.com/view/600327/

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:05 am

Phantasmagirl wrote:Very nice! if you're looking for constructive criticism, with macro, it's best to shoot with a small aperture (high fstop number.. like f8 on most digital cameras, or even higher if you can) because it will increase your depth of field and make more things in focus. I have a similar series of spider feeding shots myself...

http://www.deviantart.com/view/600327/

Yea, I shot those at F20

dissent · Post by **dissent** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:20 am

Mmm. Juicy ...

* continues gnawing on pbj while viewing gallery *

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:44 pm

Those are up close and personal.

TOO up-close, I might add.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:30 pm

Thrawn, the problem with Photoshop and RAW files is that the RAW format differs from manufacturer to manufacturer, and even from model to model. Adobe reverse engineered a lot of RAW formats to add the feature to Photoshop, but of course it is to be expected that sometimes their interpreter will not produce results that are on par with an interpreter written by the camera manufacturer.

Luckily, Adobe is spearheading an initiative whereby different camera manufacturers write plugins for Photoshop that convert their RAW formats to a universal bitmap format, allowing users to use only one application, but still protecting different manufacturers' trade secrets.

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:50 am

True, but it's more of my screwup than anything.

World War Woodi · Post by **World War Woodi** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:14 pm

Took your spider feeding close up shot, made it my background and set my matrix screensaver going. Then waited, sure enuff my 9 yr old asked to use the computer, "sure go ahead", hehehehe scared the crap out of him ! HAHAHAH

Im evil.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:19 pm

Mobius wrote:Those are up close and personal.

TOO up-close, I might add.

Quite right. Spiders need privacy too.

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 8:39 am

woodi wrote:Took your spider feeding close up shot, made it my background and set my matrix screensaver going. Then waited, sure enuff my 9 yr old asked to use the computer, "sure go ahead", hehehehe scared the crap out of him ! HAHAHAH

Im evil.

HAHA ROFL!!! Good way to keep the kids on their toes

Btw, I got a new one for you guys. This one isn't nature, but when I was down on the plaza. This is one of my favorites because the guy was really bummed (literally) when having no success getting change from people passing by. I shot in a way to leave the viewer thinking "what is he thinking, or what type of music is he listening to in order to take him away from this harsh reality"

Sorry for the confusion on my haha rofl, I edited the post to make more sense on what exactly I was laughing at.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 12:34 pm

Admiral Thrawn wrote:HAHA ROFL!!! I got a new one for you guys. This one isn't nature, but when I was down on the plaza. This is one of my favorites because the guy was really bummed (literally) when having no success getting change from people passing by. I shot in a way to leave the viewer thinking "what is he thinking, or what type of music is he listening to in order to take him away from this harsh reality"

Que?

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:59 pm

meh, and now the site isn't working.

Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Admiral Thrawn** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:34 pm

seems to be working. I wonder if my isp had problems.