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Macro IOTW for the week ending 11/19/2010 Jeff Dyck: Jumping Spider on a Leaf
Congratulations Jeff Dyck for your image "Jumping Spider on a Leaf" being chosen as the Macro Image of the Week for the week ending 11/19/2010!!!
This little jumping spider hopped on my shirt while I was out in the backyard last spring and in doing so became my first subject for testing out my new reversing ring. For scale, this little fellow is about 1/4" in length (not quite big enough to eat Harry Potter yet...). The shot you see is just a hair shy of full frame (the image was cropped a hair to better center the subject) and basically straight out of the camera.
The technical stuff --> Shot hand-held with a reversed 28mm Pentax-M lens (from my dusty, 25-year old Pentax 35mm film camera kit) mounted to a 25mm extension tube shot at f11 (I'd have liked to have gone with an even smaller aperture, but using stop down metering (even in live-view) in low light you have to be able to see your subject to focus, and that was near to impossible at f22). Lighting is with a 580EX Canon flash equipped with an inexpensive mini-softbox.
Canon 5DII -- Pentax-M 28mm f2.8 mounted in reverse (with a reversing ring) w/ 25mm extension tube -- f11 @ 1/125s -- ISO400 -- 580EX Flash through a cheap plastic softbox
