Focus On The Clutter

This is a picture of a type of jumping spider in the family Salticidae. These are very interesting spiders that have excellent vision and are able to jump large distances to capture prey or escape. I didn't know that information off the top of my head, I emailed an Entomologist from the University of Queensland, and asked what sort of spider this is. I took this picture on the wooden frame of a mirror. This picture was originally zoomed out a lot. But I thought it looked better up close where you can see all the details, so I cropped the picture to this zoom. I love the detail of this picture. The way you can see the little hairs on the legs and the fangs, the six visible eyes, each separate joint on the legs. Such a small creature, but a truly amazing creature, and one of perfect design. As for the bad things about this picture, well, the focus on the main part of the spider is very good. But the focus to the left and to the right and on the back of the spider isn't very good. As I've said on other pictures, it's too blurry. But it's important to note here, as I've said on other pictures, areas to the sides and the back of the main subject of the picture should (generally) be a bit blurry so as to emphasize the focus on the main part of the image (in this case, the main part of the picture being the front half of the spider) but here the focus, I think, is too blurry. Notice that the focus on the wood to the sides of the spider is the same as the focus on the back half of the spider, that's not good, the back half of the spider is more important than the wood, the wood is just the background. The back half of the spider is less important than the front half of the spider but more important than the front half, that is why the front half is in so much better focus than the back half. The back half is more important than the wood and therefore there should be slightly better focus on it. Now, I should say, when I talk about that stuff about where the focus should be and all that, I don't really know the rules about getting the right focus in photography, I'm just saying what I think is best judging on my experience with photography, I'm saying that I think this is how you should handle your focus (within photography of this sort, that being macro/super macro photography) in order to make the picture look as good as you possibly can.

A Leafy Incline

I'm not sure if pictures of water are getting a bit boring, but I couldn't not put this picture on my blog. I think the focus on the edge of leaf in the bottom-left corner of the picture is quite bad, I think that it should be a bit blurry, so as to make the focus on the middle of the photo stand out more. But here I think the focus on the bottom-left corner of the picture is a bit too blurry. The main focus is on the middle of the picture, and that focus is good, it fits with the rest of the picture, and the focus becomes blurrier and blurrier as you go towards the edge of the picture, which is good, because it emphasizes the focus on the middle. But I think, in the middle of the picture, just above the biggest lump of water, the focus goes blurry very abruptly, and I would say too abruptly, it should get slowly more blurry, not just suddenly jump from perfect focus to completely blurred. I can't quite say what I like about this picture, it looks kind of like one of those wallpapers that are already there when you install an operating system on a computer. Oh, did you notice that little bubble of air in one of the droplets of water?

A Gold Flooded Sky

I cannot decide weather this picture would be better with or without the aeroplane in the picture. Anyway, this picture was taken in Singapore airport, it was taken through the window of one of the lounges where you sit and wait for your aeroplane. I very much like how the light of the sun reflects off the yellow on the ground very nicely. One thing that really annoys me in this picture is the dark thing in the top left corner of the picture. Something about the picture that I could not have changed is about the trees. Just below the sun, where the trees rise in height, I think the trees get too close to the sun (in a 2D perspective), the sun should be more isolated from the trees. And the trees at the far left of the picture are to indistinct, I would have liked better focus there. But apart from that, this is among my favourite sunrise/sunset pictures.

Caught In A Web

I very much like this picture, the perspective is unusual, and it almost looks like there's a pane of glass that the water droplets are sitting on. But no, those droplets of water are caught in a spider web. Now, first for the criticisms. The focus on the bottom left corner of the picture is too blurry. I think it should be a bit blurry, so as to make the center of the picture more the focus of the photo, but here it's a bit too blurry in the bottom left corner. Also, although I haven't edited this photo, it looks a bit like a 5 year old tried to edit it and was on for about 5 seconds and then he was called away from the computer. What I mean is, there are little bits of the photo that look as if they don't really fit, as if they were taken from another picture and added in. As for the good things about this picture, the focus on the middle of picture is close to perfect, and the focus gets slightly more blurry as you go towards the outside of the picture, which emphasizes the focus on the middle of the picture.