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Mike Curtis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Macro Images > Wolf Spider
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11-JUN-2005 ©Mike Curtis

Wolf Spider

These were taken one night in my backyard. I had someone shine a flashlight on the spider so I could get sharp focus. The spider is a little smaller than a US Quarter. All taken with the Panasonic Lumix FZ20 and a Nikon 6T closeup lens. Also used a Sunpak 383 with Stofen Omnibounce diffuser with the head angled at 60 degrees to shine the light from above. While shooting the first one, a smaller wolf spider walked in front of the bigger one, and I quickly found out that they are sometimes cannibals.... You can see in the first three images the smaller wolf spider in the bigger one's fangs. Too cool.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20
1/60s f/8.0 at 54.0mm iso80 with Flash hide exif
Full EXIF Info
Date/Time11-Jun-2005 20:43:13
MakePanasonic
ModelDMC-FZ20
Flash UsedYes
Focal Length54 mm
Exposure Time1/60 sec
Aperturef/8
ISO Equivalent80
Exposure Bias-0.33
White Balance (4)
Metering Modemulti spot (3)
JPEG Quality (6)
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

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Jill From Oz 15-Mar-2006 09:31
WOW great photo. I've just bought an FZ20. I've taken a few quick photos, and I'm already impressed. I haven't even started playing with the manual settings yet. Can't wait to start playing.