Fishing Spider..........Dolomedes triton

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University of Puerto Rico's Botanical Gardens. Canon 30D, Canon 100 macro w/macro flash and polarizers. ISO 100, f/11 @ 1/250 sec.

[Chris Starbuck]

Alfredo,
I like this! Makes me really glad I'm not a fish. My eye goes right to the face - excellent detail there. I always wish for more DOF, but it's physically impossible to cover the entire spider in one exposure at this magnification. I like the diagonal orientation of the leaf. The lighting looks a little uneven, more above and below the spider, and rather dark on the left side, but that's a nit. The body is well lit, and that's really the center of attention.

[Julie Kenward]

Now that's how you make a spider portrait! Excellent work! I agree that the lighting could be more uniform but I rather like it as is because it ads to the ambience. I would think about toning down the white circles on the right side and maybe even cloning out the partial leaf at the bottom edge of the frame on the right. Other than that, you really did a great job on this. The detail in the spider is really fantastic.

[Gus Cobos]

Excellent work Alfredo. This is one nice capture and composition. The details on the spider are razor sharp and you have good color rendition. Suggestion...just me, thinking out loud...:D I wounder how the image would look; if you make black the background for the exception of the diagonal branch on top, and the leaf where the spider is...hmmm...food for thought...:cool:

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Thanks for all your comments.

[Mike Moats]

Hey Alfredo, I totally agree with whats already been said, Well Done!