Catch of the day

[Jim Caldwell]

Not my catch of the day, but the spider's! I discovered this little jumping spider on a fence post with a large green grasshopper. Regrets: I wasn't able to hold focus throughout the fencepost background.

Recipe: Take 1 Canon 1d Mk II N with a 100-400mm Canon lens and 48mm extension tube. Add an exposure of f/8.0 at 1/800 sec. and then a dash of fill from a 580ex flash at -2/3. Do not agitate the subject!!

[Alfred Forns]

.... shaken not stirred Excellent catch I like how well the spider looks Seems to have all under control Wish they were in a level surface the oof right is a bit distracting might crop some from the right I like this a lot !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Man, who's got whom???? :eek:

Ambitious little fella, and good of you to catch them :)

[Robert O'Toole]

Hi Jim,

Excellent! Great moment, comp and positioning of the subjects. I agree with Alfred too bad about the OOF areas looks like it was a pole. Too bad there is no field curvature DOF tool in Photoshop.

I love jumpers, they are amazing spiders! Super agressive, seemingly curious, and fearless. I have seen small jumpers attack and eat Lynx spiders much bigger than them.

Robert

[Nicole Brooker]

That is a unique catch. The use of flash is not obvious which is great. I like Alfred's suggestion about cropping to remove some of the OOF parts.

[Arjan van der Stelt]

Great catch from both the spider and photographer agree with the suggestions about the OOF parts......

[Mike Moats]

Hey Jim, very cool find and excellent details on the main subjects, and agree it would have been nice with more sharpness on the fence. A crop right at the edge of the shadows leg elbow will eliminate most of the OOF area.

[Jim Caldwell]

Again, I appreciate the great comments. I tried a crop by cutting out part of the shadow of the grasshopper, which I was relunctant to do, but I think it actually works well that way and helps to disguise the fact that the rounded post on that side is slightly out of focus.