[Digitalis]

The reason the spider appears to be floating is because I have it on a sheet of thick glass, at those magnifications even the finest papers produce a distracting background so to reduce this effect I chose to elevate the subject above the paper. Main light was with an AF540 in a 40" softbox though In retrospect, I should dodge the highlights in the eyes to reduce the annoying pattern that is visible and I should have had an auxiliary light behind the subject to bring out the texture in the subject.

I didn't bother DOF stacking with this image.

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Last edited by Digitalis; 01-28-2015 at 12:35 AM.

[Digitalis]

here is a finalised edit of the image, I used a different image to produce this result with all image corrections applied - none of this would have been possible without my Wacom intuos 4 Graphics tablet...