jonreynolds

microworldpic-1-5

SONY SLT-A77V

settings

Aperture f/6.3 ISO 200 Shutter 1/250 Focal Length 1000/10

upload_date

Jun, 2014

Views

3534

Likes

+990

Awards

Chatter Award

Zenith Award

Creative Winter Award

Curator's Selection

2020 Choice Award

Featured

Contest Finalist in Front And Center Photo Contest

Contest Finalist in Insects and Flowers Photo Contest

Featured

Superb Composition

+172

Top Choice

+109

Absolute Masterpiece

+82

Peer Award

+52

Outstanding Creativity

+37

Superior Skill

+29

Magnificent Capture

+20

All Star

+17

Great Find

Jaw Dropping

VIP Favorite

Exceptional Contrast

Top Class Lighting

One Of A Kind

Top Ranks

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 2

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 2

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 20 rank

Top 30 rank week 2

Top 20 rank week 1

Top 10 rank

Top 10 rank week 1

Categories

Macro

wonderful capture

Cute little spider - great shot. Congratulatiosn on being Featured.

amazing photo

Beautiful capture.Congrats!

Great shot

I love this!

Outstanding shot, congratulations !

Thank you everyone! I was very surprised to find out this news when I woke up this morning!

Beautiful capture

awesome shot..Congrats!! ")

Superb work !

Gotta love spiders....congrats

PRO+

Great capture!

Wonderful macro detail, nice composition and great colours......terrific capture.

Great capture, love the colour and high definition, amazing love it :)

Perfect!

Premium

amazing capture !

Amazing

Platinum

Great macro!! congrats on your feature.

Excellent

fantastic shot

so cute, it's a great shot

Platinum

Great macro shot. amazing clarity of the spider. Congrats of the feature.

Awesome!!!!

fab capture

Platinum

Fantastic macro shot! Congrats on being featured!

An amazing shot!!!

Wonderful catch...

Amazing....amazing....amazing !

Brilliant shot!

Great capture.

This is so cute! I love jumping spiders :)

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing capture, well done :-)

What an amazing capture! Stunning!

Platinum

awesome capture!!

See all

Same photographer See all Behind The Lens

The Grist Mill at Babcock State Park near Beckley, West Virginia, is lovely any time of year, but never more so than in the fall.

Pic of downtown Cincinnati and the John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge on Friday, July 25.

A few moments later in the sunrise at Storr, as I waited for the sun to thread the eye in the rocks.

Pics from a recent trip to Rocky Mountain National Park near Estes Park, CO.

My time in Arches National Park was actually quite brief. Much of the park was closed due to road repairs (no Delicate Arch, no Garden of Eden, no F

Published in Photography Week,Oct. 16-22, 2014 issue.

Looking Ahead and Looking Within: "Adventure is Not Inside Man; It is Within." George Eliot.

Floating Rock is one of the landmarks in the Narrows, the series of slot canyons located in Zion National Park in Utah.

Light trails at rush hour through Downtown Cincinnati.

I Seek the Mountain Streams

“I Seek the Songs of Nature
Their tones of Ancient Worth,
I Seek the Mountain Streams,
To Find the Melody of the Earth

We'll Take Manhattan: "...The great big city's a wondrous toy just made for a girl and boy
We'll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy." (Lorenz Hart-Ric

Discover more photos See all

Shot during a photo walk through the city. On this particular day, large, sterile city objects were not inspiring me. However, this caught my eye by mr_katz_

Close up shot of blueberry by AnitaHorvat

Picture taking at the local petting zoo by Eduardbetz

Plants captured in my garden with the Lensbaby Velvet 85. by sofiasitnikiene

A red ribbon gets cut by scissors by mb_photoarts

photo and Retouch: Jackson Carvalho
www.jacksoncarvalho.com by JacksonCarvalho

The Sunken Treasure by Arue-AlessandroTavernini

A small praying mantis [Ameles spec.] in the early morning. No image manipulation - retouching. by HenrikSpranz

Behind The Lens

Location

This was taken just outside of my office at my workplace. One of things I love about photography is that your next subject could literally be right next to you!

Time

I took this around 1 p.m. on a very overcast day in the late spring.

Lighting

The lighting was perfect: clean, flat and even, avoiding the need for any flashes or reflectors for this particular shot.

Equipment

At the time I shot this with my Sony A77 and a 100mm macro.

Inspiration

I am always looking for photo opportunities, especially ones that will help improve my macro photography. The previous day I had noticed a number of small grasshoppers crawling on the flowers and decided to try to capture some of them. After a half hour or so, I suddenly noticed this baby jumping spider just staring at me in one of the orange lilies. I think this was my first successful macro attempt.

Editing

The lighting really was perfect, so I didn't really feel the need to do much in post-processing. I added just a little bit of clarity in Lightroom and a slight vignette. Because the sky was overcast, the colors were nice and saturated and weren't really in any need to be enhanced.

In my camera bag

I now have a Sony A99, with a Minolta 20mm prime 2.8 and a 16mm fisheye 2.8; a Sony 70-300mm 4.5-5.6 and a 100mm macro 2.8; and a Zeiss 24-70 2.8. I also use B&W screw-in filters, polarizing and various ND ones, and plenty of lens cloths. I must lose one almost every time I go out!

Feedback

I'm really interested in developing all aspects of my photography: nature and landscape, wildlife, street, architecture, star and night sky, people and portrait, and macro. I think trying to become versatile is the best approach at first because then you can truly learn what you want to be as a photographer. While I admire those who specialize, my advice is try to learn as much as you can about all aspects of your craft, because the skills that can make you a good macro photographer (eg. thinking on your feet; being prepared for unpredictable conditions such as light, wind, or weather; understanding where the focal point should be and how to draw people in; learning how to manually focus) can help you be a good street photographer or wildlife photographer. In addition, don't wait for the epic or amazing moment, because that can often cause you to overlook great opportunities that are beckoning just beyond your front door. This shot was taken right next to my office! Finally, without wading into the great equipment/great photographer debate too much, while it's true the best camera you have is the one that is with you, it's also true that having better tools can help you become a better artist, but only after you have learned how to use them. This shot wouldn't really have been possible without having a macro lens and learning how to use it, which then gave me permission to continue to expand and improve my macro photography. To paraphrase John Culkin a bit, the tools that we have (or shape, as he wrote) eventually will shape us (for better or worse), so if you have that macro lens gathering dust in your camera bag, get it out and learn how to use it! Who knows where you can go from there.

See more amazing photos, follow jonreynolds

jonreynolds

jonreynolds

microworldpic-1-5

Behind The Lens

See more amazing photos, follow jonreynolds

Share photos. Enter contests to win great prizes. Earn coins, get amazing rewards. Join for free.

Share photos. Enter contests to win great prizes.
Earn coins, get amazing rewards. Join for free.