A very small jumping spider I found while washing the car. Shortly after I was heading outside with camera, tripod, flash, umbrella and light stand (another tripod). The image has not been rotated, the spider is on a vertical metal fence bar.
Lighting: A flash with umbrella camera right, shooting from slightly below.
Post processing: Converted RAW in ACR. Cropped (I don't usually crop but the spider was too small to be seen properly at 640px otherwise). Noise reduction. Resize, smart sharpen and save for web.
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I like how this jumper almost seems to have long eyelashes. The picture does seem to be a bit over sharpened and blown out in areas. I think a little more cropping from the right, some noise reduction and enhancing the colors a bit could have added to this picture. As far as what I think are blown out spots, I could be wrong; those can't really be corrected using Photoshop. Those have to be corrected during shooting.
nice detail in the spider and whatever it is sitting on. i think this is just a tad oversharpened though but it gives it a cool alien feel. nice different angle...not sure if i like it because i automatically turned my head and now after staring at it for a minute my neck hurts :) but yeah cool macro!
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