Headache

[Michael Lloyd]

This is the 5th frame of a sequence. Unfortunately this is the first one that the flash fired. It's remarkable how fast these guys wrap up their prey.

EOS1DsMKII
580EX
180mm macro lens
ISO 400

1/250 @f7.1

http://images26.fotki.com/v941/photos/4/42560/3078779/Macro_Spiderkill_009s-vi.jpg

[Robert O'Toole]

Hi Michael,

Love the action and the composition.

Looks like there is some kind of movement, hard to tell if its ghosting or what but the catchlights in the spiders eyes look a little smeared. Hard to tell.

Also a finer point but is that a piece of lint in the top center, or is it on my computer? I shot with a MKII for years and years so I know how easy they show dust and lint.

Thanks for posting.

Robert

[Michael Lloyd]

It wouldn't surprise me if the spider or grasshopper moved a little bit. I didn't see the lint until you pointed it out. Good eye! The DsMKII is a dust hog that's for sure. One of the things that I don't like is having to clean the sensor but that's part of moving to digital.
I hope that my DsMKIII is better but I'm not sold on Canon's sensor cleaning technology yet.