Dick,
Fabulous shot of the spider. Very similar to a crowd of spiders we had in
our Sydney garden last summer. I was tempted to try for a pic myself but
just didn't get around to it. I think the generic name is 'Golden Orb'
spider.
Now what I'd really like to see is a good macro shot of a Sydney Funnel-Web
spider. They are extremely venomous and look really nasty particularly in
striking position. So when will you be down this way? <g>
Cheers,
JohnW.
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Richard Locke
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:49 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] big spider
Thanks for the note Tom. It was indeed handheld, leaning into a bush, on
tippy toes. The web was under the roof overhang.
Scanned with my relatively new Nikon Coolscan IV ED, modest cropping and
level adjustment in photoshop. I always scan with 12 bits per pixel (about
a 70 MB file) and later reduce to 8.
I probably took 30 shots of this guy (gal), getting progressively closer as
I was afraid of disturbing it. I think I still have some shots on a roll of
Kodachrome I took and don't have back yet.
-Dick
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:00:39 -0600
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Speaking of Spiders
Wow, handheld?
That is an incredible shot -- seems like our week for great spider pics.
What did you scan that with? It came through wonderful. Lots of detail.
Tom
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:19:52 -0600
From: "Richard Locke" <dtlocke@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: [OM] Speaking of Spiders
Speaking of spiders...
Here's a spider hanging around the B&B we stayed at in Wimberly, TX. OM2s
(thanks Tom!), Vivitar 90mm macro (thanks to another list member whose name
I forget, sorry), handheld, Kodak RG 100 print film, ~f8 at about 1/250 plus
or minus one fstop in either direction. I was bracketing around "sunny 16."
I named him "Boris," which my wife didn't understand as she wasn't really
into The Who way back when ;-)
Can anyone definitively identify Boris?
- -Dick, dtlocke@xxxxxxxx
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