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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Mangora » Tuftlegged Orbweaver (Mangora placida)
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Orb Weaver - Mangora placida
Copyright © 2008 Roland Barth

Orb Weaver - Mangora placida
Fontenelle Forest, Sarpy County, Nebraska, USA
June 23, 2008
Size: small
Please help to identify this spider - sorry about lack of focus. Thanks.
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Contributed by Roland Barth on 23 June, 2008 - 10:43am
Last updated 9 July, 2008 - 6:21pm

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 9 July, 2008 - 6:21pm login or register to post comments

Check out Mangora placida
in the guide here. They are tough to photograph. Small and blowing in the wind, and if you try a flash it makes the white body blinding white! But keep trying - we are too!
… john and jane balaban, 23 June, 2008 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

 
Exposure settings
Hi John and Jane, For these particular spiders, try setting your camer to P, S, or A mode. Next set your exposure to 1/125 sec or faster and adjust the f/ stop to as small as you can get. I use f/36 at 1/200 sec plus flash. I can also adjust the flash compensation from -3EV to +1EV at 1/3EV increments. By doing this, I can usually elimanet the extreme bright white and you get great depth of field. Don't know if this would work with a macro lens, but I doubt it.
… Jerry Armstrong, 26 March, 2009 - 4:17am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks for the instant respon
Thanks for the instant response. I usually shoot in natural light. But I also tries a flash on this one because the canopy is now closed. You're right, it comes out white. I should have tried to coax her onto a leaf.
Roland
… Roland Barth, 23 June, 2008 - 10:54am login or register to post comments

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