This was a tiny jumper on the backside of a flower in my garden that was backlit. I was intrigued by the huge shadow. I was only able to get one before he hopped away.
Canon 7D
Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro
1/250sec f/9 ISO 500
Canon 430 EX
A very cool shadow capture, Ian. I have to say that I'm not a big B&W fan, but others may like it a lot. I think the image would be stronger if you could blur some of the busy background elements - thereby placing more emphasis on the spider. :)
Ian, I like the shadow a lot but there's too much else going on around it. If you can keep the quality, a tighter crop, maybe with a vignette might look good.
Thanks, folks. I have it in color, but it was not particularly interesting to me and I liked the creepy B/W look. I also couldn't get rid of that darn green on top of the purple flower. I'll try a tighter crop and see how it goes.
Hey Ian,
I agreed with the above comments on the BG.....so nice job by Ken showing you a possible direction to try! I do think you lost a bit of the shadow in the conversion on one of the legs.....so just keep that in mind when re-working the image.