SynDen;n642106 said:
OMG man, very nice! I love the 2nd and 3rd one. The color impact on those is pretty awesome. What did you use for the sets this time?
Thanks it was fun.
Yeah the 2nd and 3rd are probably my favorites as well the 2nd for sure. For the second one I used the bottom of a blue sake glass with a coral magazine behind it that had some yellow tangs on the cover. I use a flash with a soft box on a 1/250th synch.
For the 3rd one I use a decorative glass bowl turned upside down and another coral magazine with a pink and purple anemone on the cover. I used the same flash and soft box from before but also added a second ring flash on a remote trigger for fill light on the left.
This time I used CO2 to anesthetize the spider for about 5-10 minutes at a time. Gives me much more time pose the little guy then wait for it to wake up then snap as many shots as possible. Works way better than the refrigerator and only takes about two or three minutes for the spider to go to sleep. Less chance of killing it too.
It's funny as hell when they wake up all startled like "WTF just happened!!"