House Spider/s?

This/these were posing upside down from one of the high level greenhouse rails. I'm confused as to what was going on here; from the number of eyes and legs I think that this was two spiders, perhaps one was eating the other or they were mating. They appear to be of the same species. 100mm Pentax Macro + Pentax Ring Flash + recently acquired Pentax 1.7x Adapter. The only cropping was to produce a square image.I believe I also had switched on the HDR function prior to shooting.

Uploaded02/06/2012 - 14:44

CategoryMacro

BodyPENTAX K20D

Shutter Speed1/180

Aperturef/32

LensN/A

ISO200

Focal Length100mm

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Tagsmacro close-up nature spider

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Date Taken	26/05/2012 - 16:05
Make	PENTAX
Model	PENTAX K20D
Program Mode	Aperture Priority
Metering Mode	Center-weighted average
Shutter Speed	1/180
Aperture	f/32
ISO	200
Focal Length	100mm
Lens	N/A

matwhittingto... matwhittington

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Posted 02/06/2012 - 17:24 Link

It's an impressive close up but I can see what you mean about all the eyes and things. If you had the HDR function on then I believe the camera takes three pictures (regular exposed, one over and one under) and merges them in camera to give HDR result - perhaps the subject moved between exposures and that accounts for the end result?

Mat W

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