Hello,
Last weekend I was able to get to the coast to have what may well be my last opportunity to photograph my favourite Maratus - The Tasmanian peacock spider. eliasfta and I have had our most successful season this year getting thousands of photos and video of these tiny spiders. Any day that the weather was decent during our springtime and you could find us out in the field, crawling on the floor while shooting them . We learnt a lot about how to and when to find them, saw their courtship dance and fights, etc. After a long cold winter, my shooting,editing and how to approach insect techniques were rusty to say the least . I improved my diffusion and changed my post editing since then.
But on this day, the last shoot for this beautiful spider for the season all the stars lined up for this shoot. This male was the only one I saw at the place where I normal find these species and he was a perfect model, not skittish and let me get very close, gave me great angles and more importanly he would look at the lenses now and then. Male peacock spiders give very quick glances where they lock eyes with the lense giving those face, eye shots everyone loves, females on the other hand will outright stare at you making eye shots easy. It was a great shoot and I got some of my favourite shots of the season, an incredible farewell and until next year send off. I have too many to post so we will start with this one, which by the way is among a set of images which will be my first printed photos. Hope you enjoy
Last weekend I was able to get to the coast to have what may well be my last opportunity to photograph my favourite Maratus - The Tasmanian peacock spider. eliasfta and I have had our most successful season this year getting thousands of photos and video of these tiny spiders. Any day that the weather was decent during our springtime and you could find us out in the field, crawling on the floor while shooting them . We learnt a lot about how to and when to find them, saw their courtship dance and fights, etc. After a long cold winter, my shooting,editing and how to approach insect techniques were rusty to say the least . I improved my diffusion and changed my post editing since then.
But on this day, the last shoot for this beautiful spider for the season all the stars lined up for this shoot. This male was the only one I saw at the place where I normal find these species and he was a perfect model, not skittish and let me get very close, gave me great angles and more importanly he would look at the lenses now and then. Male peacock spiders give very quick glances where they lock eyes with the lense giving those face, eye shots everyone loves, females on the other hand will outright stare at you making eye shots easy. It was a great shoot and I got some of my favourite shots of the season, an incredible farewell and until next year send off. I have too many to post so we will start with this one, which by the way is among a set of images which will be my first printed photos. Hope you enjoy
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