Spider and prey

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Captured hand-held last night using Panasonic G5 with Raynox 250 on 45-175 lens, and KX800 twin flash with shallow hybrid diffusers and a concave diffuser.

All the shots used the G5's rather slow 1/160 max flash sync speed, f/22 and ISO 250.

The images were batch processed in DXO Optics Pro and individually adjusted in Lightroom.

I noticed this, hanging in front of the low wall I was exploring.

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0869 24 2016_03_27 P1160571_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 25 2016_03_27 P1160572_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 26 2016_03_27 P1160576_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 27 2016_03_27 P1160573_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

I then moved on to photograph a nearby woodlouse. While doing that I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye - the spider had returned to its prey. It was moving around fast. In 20 seconds I took 6 shots, and then the spider and prey had disappeared. Only three of the shots seemed good enough for posting, but I have added a fourth (the last one here) because it shows the spider grasping the prey which it had released from the web and was about to carry away inside the wall.

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0869 30 2016_03_27 P1160583_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 31 2016_03_27 P1160585_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 32 2016_03_27 P1160586_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr

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0869 32a 2016_03_27 P1160588_DxO LR 1300h by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
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You almost got in trouble there Nick!

As you were getting closer to its prey,
the spider felt it had to stand between
you and its lunch…

Very cool level of details but a tad too
yellowish rendition for my taste.
 
Kodiak Qc said:
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You almost got in trouble there Nick!

As you were getting closer to its prey,
the spider felt it had to stand between
you and its lunch…
Click to expand...

I think that's about it. :D

Kodiak Qc said:
Very cool level of details but a tad too
yellowish rendition for my taste.
Click to expand...

I think that's a good call Daniel. Thanks. I also think it has too much magenta. I was concentrating on controlling highlights with the set of images from which these are taken and didn't pay a lot of attention to colour. I did notice a pinkish hue a couple of times (one of these was one of the ones where I noticed this) but I promptly forgot about it and didn't come back to it. But I think you are right about the yellow too. This spawned a quite detailed bit of digging and experimentation, which I'll probably write up in my journey thread, but for now here is an animated gif comparing one of them as posted with a version with Temp and Tint both reduced (which I prefer the look of).


0869 31 Posted version vs Reduced Temp and Tint version by gardenersassistant, on Flickr
 
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Fantastic as always and :agree: with Neil No 6 EEEEEK :exit:Look at those fangs.
 
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