My next spider-related goal has to be to get a good photo of one of them gritting those teeth. I certainly want to thank them for their cooperation and patience. I don’t know but they may actually be gritting their teeth through the whole mysterious ordeal. One mode fires a ring of bright white LED lights around the lens to help illuminate the subject, making it a bit “ Close Encounters of the Third Kind “ for the spiders.įor their part, spiders are generally very good subjects. I try not to actually hit the insect I’m photographing but my hands can shake (I left this particular spider’s web oscillating a bit). Imagine, if out of a clear blue sky, a transit bus dropped sideways on you, stopping less than an inch short of your head and then just hovered there, wobbling uncertainly. You should understand that to get anything like a detailed photo of an insect using my Pentax WG-3 “adventure camera” I’m using modes that require the camera to be within a centimetre of the subject.
I know about arachnophobia (the fear of spiders) but I apparently suffer from a form of arachnophilia (the love of spiders) in that I love to photograph them.īut if I never tire of taking their pictures, I can see how spiders might be getting a little sick of the attention. Take a picture! It’ll last longer and it won’t crawl on your arm Three-quarters of the photographs weren’t any good and one of the best was taken second to last, so the patience of the spider really made the difference.
#ARACHNOPHILIA LOVE OF SPIDERS TRIAL#
The rest is probably down to luck.įor this kind of super close photography my camera cannot hold the entire depth of the spider in focus at one time and because we’re talking auto focus, it takes trial and error and many photos to coax the camera to focus on the part I care about. Most of the credit for this should go to the spider’s ability to pose for minutes without so much as twitching. Today’s spider photos yielded some good details - of the way the web is constructed, with the orbital and radial threads winding around each other, and the little hooks that terminate the spider’s legs and visibly “hook” onto the web. Getting up close and personal-too up close? I think we can all agree that it’s even weirder-looking than the top side. Today I saw a side of the common European garden spider I had never seen before - the underside.
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