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....... need a longer lens

Postby big pix on Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:09 am

as the 300mm +2X TC shooting this bloke was a little too close........ I hate spiders..... found just inside the garage door

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Re: ....... need a longer lens

Postby gstark on Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:15 am

big pix wrote:as the 300mm +2X TC shooting this bloke was a little too close........ I hate spiders..... found just inside the garage door



Bernie,

I don't think he'd eat too much of the door though.

Nice detail, btw.
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Postby big pix on Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:19 am

not unless he is on an iron diet........... looks like he was poking around the garden by the bits of crap stuck to his legs....... I may get brave later and get him back into the garden :wink:
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Re: ....... need a longer lens

Postby ATJ on Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:56 am

Nice shot, Bernie. It's just a huntsman and nothing to really worry about.

Leave it in the garage, it'll get plenty of food there.
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Postby aim54x on Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:13 am

Very nice shot there! Why not a macro lens??? I have a 180mm for this job!

THey are pretty scary looking if you dont know about them (that would be me).
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Postby surenj on Thu Sep 17, 2009 7:34 pm

Whoa! nice capture!

It might look a bit more oriented if you rotate 180 degrees so the spider is diagnoally coming towards the viewer.
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Postby Matt. K on Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:00 pm

You need a rolled up newspaper! :D :D :D :D :D Seriously....good shot! It looks so damned real that even the photo is scary!
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Postby Photopotamus on Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:04 pm

Matt. K wrote: It looks so damned real that even the photo is scary!

:agree:
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Postby jaff on Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:59 am

Matt. K wrote:You need a rolled up newspaper! :D :D :D :D :D




Bugger the paper........you need a gun!
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Postby !~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! on Sat Sep 19, 2009 9:45 am

omg a warning in the title pleasssssse lol
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Postby ewm3 on Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:40 pm

if that was in my garage I wouldn't be in the garage!
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Re: ....... need a longer lens

Postby Killakoala on Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:47 pm

That's a beauty. :)
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Re: ....... need a longer lens

Postby photohiker on Sun Sep 20, 2009 6:32 pm

Great shot.

Leave it in the garage. They are not dangerous and they eat redbacks for breakfast. :)

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Re: ....... need a longer lens

Postby ATJ on Mon Sep 21, 2009 9:21 am

photohiker wrote:They are not dangerous and they eat redbacks for breakfast. :)

I think you might be getting huntsman confused with daddy long legs. Daddy long legs prey on redbacks. Huntsman pretty much just eat insects. White-tail spiders prey on redbacks, as well as black house spiders and daddy long legs.
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