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FFZ5 + 4T Spider and Bee story ~ 7 pics (Graphic)

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Saw this spider in my parents' backyard today...
Quite the beautiful web...





Here's close-up of the spider...we named her "BERTHA" after the big bertha golf clubs cause it was just monstrous...



Couldn't figure out why it wasn't moving around...then we saw all the wasps that were nearby to various plants and flowers...





Then, one got caught in the web...IT WAS LUNCH TIME FOR THE BERTHA...poor wasp...didn't have a chance...





I even got a couple of good action shots...





Unfortunately that's all I could get posted tongiht...

Needless to say I left my parents feeling all itchy...I can't wait to head back there and see what other surprises their backyard holds...

Hope you enjoy...

Shane

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Olympus C-2000
Sony DSC-P92
Canon S1 IS
Canon SD500
Panny FZ5
 
That is one nasty looking spider, I am glad we do not have spiders that big in Denmark ;)

Great shots with the 4T macro lens.
 
wowwwwwww!!!!!

That Piture is the very best spider-pic i've ever seen - it leaves me breathless:



Thanks for sharing it with us...

Michael
 
Thanks for that link, good to know it's not some freak mutated spider just hanging around the house...

So I'm guessing that this is a male? and the the females get even larger?
Man, I had a hard time falling asleep last night after working on this pics...

Shane
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Olympus C-2000
Sony DSC-P92
Canon S1 IS
Canon SD500
Panny FZ5
 
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No, your photos are of the female. She hangs around in the center of the web with her head always pointed down. The male supposedly hangs around the edge of the bushes and is much smaller.

Last week I was in a field of waist high grass and weeds photographing butterflies when I slipped on a steep slope. I found myself in some spider webs. There was one of these black and yellows about 18 inches to my right and another right in front of me. Good thing I knew they were harmless or it might have really freaked me out!
 
There's some serious purple fringing in that last shot as well. Worrisome. But the rest of the shots are very nice.
 
yeah, that last one had quite a bit, i had taken about 350 shots in about 2 hours, but i guess i chose that one cause i liked the detail of the wasp in the webbing...

pf is hardly an issue with the fz5 as far as i can tell..

Shane
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Olympus C-2000
Sony DSC-P92
Canon S1 IS
Canon SD500
Panny FZ5
 
Purple fringing (chromatic aberation) can be a serious problem with any of the Panasonic 12x zoom lenses, especially with f/2.8 and sharp contrasts in the lighting... such as branches against a bright sky, etc.

I have learned how to mitigate these effects in many cases. I took the liberty of playing with your image. Does this look better?

 
Looks great...

Was it an overall colour modification or just local fixes to the legs with the PF?

Shane
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Olympus C-2000
Sony DSC-P92
Canon S1 IS
Canon SD500
Panny FZ5
 
SENSEI said:
Looks great...

Was it an overall colour modification or just local fixes to the
legs with the PF?
Click to expand...
Overall... I am far to lazy to select specific areas, unless it is a real special photo.

I use GIMP (on Linux) for my post-processing, but I am sure Photoshop will do the same thing, I am just not familiar with Photoshop. All I really did with your photo was desaturate (using the hue-staturation tool) the entire image in the offending colors. For the entire image I desaturated (if I recall correctly) cyan, blue, and magenta. I did not spend much time on it but I try never to desaturate a color more that necessary. Just play with it until you get a look that you like.

Obviously, some images can stand more desaturation in certain colors than others. depending on the colors in your image.

About a year and a half ago I posted here on this subject. Here is a link:
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1033&message=7665585
The first link is still up, but it looks like I took the other down.

Mike
 
These are superb shots Shane!

The second but last one showing the 'silk' coming out of the spiders body as it cocoons the unfortunate wasp is a classic.

You should be very proud of such good work.

Regards
Clive
 
Thanx for the comment Clive.

I was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time (dinner time for the spider) and have good lighting.

It was my first attempt to capture anything with the 4T on, looks like ti's going to be a fun accessory.

Shane
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Olympus C-2000
Sony DSC-P92
Canon S1 IS
Canon SD500
Panny FZ5
 
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