{"id":947,"date":"2012-06-20T18:56:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T23:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2012-06-20T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:17:52","slug":"backyard-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/backyard-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Spiders!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, front yard actually in this case. \u00a0This little post is a helpful reminder to look for photographic opportunities close to home. \u00a0I went looking for spiders in my bushes this morning before work, as there are usually some grass spiders to be found. \u00a0I found one, but I also stumbled upon a very small, but very beautiful Orchard Spider. \u00a0These guys are about 5mm long (not counting the legs) and so are quite challenging to shoot. \u00a0However, I managed to catch this little guy (or gal) spinning its web. \u00a0It&#8217;s the first spider picture I&#8217;ve ever gotten with the silk being created. \u00a0Nothing fancy lighting wise, just the E-M5&#8217;s clip on flash. \u00a0For macro work, often a camera mounted flash is all you need. \u00a0The light would have been better with a dedicated ring light or off camera flash, but this does nicely.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-948\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-948\" title=\"Orchard Spider\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider1.jpg 766w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider1-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider1-760x1024.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 766px) 100vw, 766px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard Spider &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Leica 45mm f\/2.8 Macro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-950\" title=\"orchard_spider2\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider2.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider2-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard Spider &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Leica 45mm f\/2.8 Macro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-952\" title=\"orchard_spider\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider3.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/orchard_spider3-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orchard Spider &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Leica 45mm f\/2.8 Macro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/grass_spider.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-949\" title=\"grass_spider\" src=\"http:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/grass_spider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"916\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/grass_spider.jpg 916w, https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/grass_spider-300x206.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grass Spider &#8211; Olympus E-M5 with Leica 45mm f\/2.8 Macro<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, front yard actually in this case. \u00a0This little post is a helpful reminder to look for photographic opportunities close to home. \u00a0I went looking for spiders in my bushes this morning before work, as there are usually some grass spiders to be found. \u00a0I found one, but I also stumbled upon a very small, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[54,146,147],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-macro","tag-spider","tag-spiders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28RGq-fh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admiringlight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}