Spider in my Garden

Here is a spider I just snapped in my back garden. It was sitting on its web, just under our classy garden table.

The second photo (below) shows the setup: a Canon 300D, Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens, on an EF25 extension tube. The lens was set at 105mm, and the exposure was 1/60th second at f/16. I used a mirror to provide some fill in light, and this had the effect of making the background seem darker. The camera was on aperture-priority, and I under exposed by 1 stop. This is the full image: it has not been cropped, tweaked or fiddled with ;-)


Setup for the spider photo. You can just about make out the spider to the left of the tripod head, below the table top.