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the remains of a molt - gaudy or great?

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the remains of a molt - gaudy or great?
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All spiders as they grow, shed their exoskeleton in a process called molting. Jumping spiders shed their head cap as well as their jaws/fangs area in solid pieces usually. I am very careful to save them and photograph them as they make for very interesting "portraits" (there's that word again....).

Some friends are going to send some of their molts from their spiders to me so that I can photograph them for them as they want them for artwork on their walls.

I use the Olympus EM1 Mark 2, the MC-20 teleconverter, 16mm Kenko tube and the 60mm macro lens with the Raynox 250 for a total of 5.5x magnification. Focus stacking over 100 images in Helicon after taking the shots using focus bracketing mode 1/10 to get the needed images.  5.5x magnification with small crops to center everything.  Field of view is about 2.5mm to 3mm at most.

Thoughts?

For this one, I balanced the head cap edge carefully on two stacked sand grains - which are garnets. This one took some work...

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OM-1 Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm F2.8 Macro Samyang 16mm F2 +1 more
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