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.