Macro and Flora Image of the Week for the week ending October 26th, 2012: Jason Stander - Beady eyes

Congratulations Jason!

Hi all... this is an image of a dark jumping spider (Salticidae)... it is difficult to expose dark the exo-skeletons... I enjoyed those "beady eyes".

Canon EOS 60D
Canon MP-E 65mm f2.8
Aperture:f16
Magnification: 2.5x
Shutter speed: 1/200s
Metering: Spot
ISO: 100
Flash: MT-24EX Macro twin-lite (diffused with chocolate packaging paper)

Crits and comments welcome... ENJOY!