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Originally Posted by kamion
Nice work!  Always been fascinated by spiders.
I'm a newbie, and have a question regarding the focus of the pictures. It seems like you focus on the "head" of the spider, and the body and some of the legs that are further away or nearer are out of focus. Is it possible to increase the "depth" (if that's what it's called) to get the whole spider in focus? |
Depth of field .
Macro photogrpahy which is what this extreme close up photography is called, is very demanding, and the closer you get to your subject the less the DOF is - only extending for a millimtre or less in some cases. The only thing you can really do to increase DOF is use a smaller aperture, but even that doesn't make a significant difference when you're working that close, so as you've already noticed, we tend to focus on the head and eyes usually, as being the most important part to have in focus.