{"id":1730,"date":"2008-11-17T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2008-11-12T20:47:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T00:47:25","slug":"spider-macrophotography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1730","title":{"rendered":"Spider Macrophotography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jumper-150x125.jpg\" alt=\"Jumper\" title=\"Jumper\" width=\"150\" height=\"125\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Dark Roasted Blend recently posted an article featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkroastedblend.com\/2008\/11\/mimicry-of-spiders.html\">close-up images of spiders<\/a>, such as this one (I totally want to hug this guy).  It strikes me that a framed series of these would be an unusual and colorful decorative accent.<\/p>\n<p>Searching on &#8220;spider macrophotography&#8221; or, conversely, &#8220;spider <em>micro<\/em>photography&#8221; (there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a lot of agreement on the proper term) will bring up quite a number of sites, including this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macro-photo.org\/species-checklist-arthropods-insects-birds-avians\/spiders-araneae-macro-photo-images-gallery.htm\">macrophoto gallery<\/a> and this <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/7539598@N04\/\">Flickr photostream<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A number of photographers sell prints of their work&#8211;the average seems to be about $35&#8211;but if you&#8217;ve got a camera you can take your own photos.  There are loads of tutorials to help you get started, such as the ones <a href=\"http:\/\/www.associatedcontent.com\/article\/689229\/how_to_take_macro_photographs.html?cat=24\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brighthub.com\/multimedia\/photography\/articles\/2557.aspx\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/photo.net\/learn\/macro\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, if gazing into the limpid eyeballs of spiders doesn&#8217;t appeal you could turn this technique to other spooky subjects: The webbing of a bat wing, the delicate strands of a spider web, or the thorns on a rose would all make unique and attractive photographs.  A series of botanical closeups of plants like hellebore and deadly nightshade would also be pretty.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of massed pictures as a way to bring a lot of interest to a wall.  This would certainly be an unusual way to accomplish it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dark Roasted Blend recently posted an article featuring close-up images of spiders, such as this one (I totally want to hug this guy). It strikes me that a framed series of these would be an unusual and colorful decorative accent. Searching on &#8220;spider macrophotography&#8221; or, conversely, &#8220;spider microphotography&#8221; (there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}