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A tiny jumping spider turns an ordinary afternoon into a close-up wildlife photography challenge, as a macro shoot begins at home with a simple living room setup and on-camera flash. When the spider appears behind the computer, the camera comes out and the scene shifts to a careful attempt at photographing the little zebra jumping spider on a purple wild onion flower from the garden.

Using a 100mm macro lens and manual settings, the focus is on patience, gentle handling, and trying to capture the spider’s markings and the flower’s colour together. The wind makes things harder, so the filming moves inside for the closing moments, but the footage still keeps the relaxed, observational feel of a nature and macro photography vlog.

It is a short, personal look at photographing bugs at home and in the garden, with the kind of everyday wildlife encounter that macro photographers love. If you enjoy macro photography, jumping spider videos, insect photography, garden wildlife, or relaxed nature content, this is an easy watch with plenty of close-up detail.

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00:39Hello again everyone, and today I'm doing something that was a little bit unplanned, which is photographing
00:50a little jumping spider.
00:54I was sat at my desk doing a little bit of work, and this little guy came crawling up
01:01the wall behind the computer, and it made me think instantly of Stuart Wood, who's brilliant
01:16at photographing these little guys.
01:18I'll leave a link to his channel in the description below.
01:23So I grabbed a flower out of the garden, which is, I think it's a wild onion, and it's a
01:29beautiful
01:30little purple flower.
01:32And I thought I would have a go at photographing this little guy, because they are so cute,
01:38these jumping spiders.
01:40And I think this one is called a zebra jumping spider because of the patterns on his body.
01:48So I've just set up my, I've got the 100mm 2.8 macro lens on here, and I'm, I'm spacing
01:59the
01:59wrong way, I can't, I wish I had a better set up to do this.
02:12And I'm shooting with, on, in manual mode, and I've got it at f8, 60, 60th of a second
02:21f8, um, at 1600 ISO, and the flash is set to, um, uh, TTL, with a minus one exposure compensation.
02:38Uh, I'm just going to try and get him back up onto the, uh, onto the flower.
02:48I'm really trying to be as gentle as I can, because I really don't want to hurt this little
02:52guy.
02:53Okay, but it's a purple flower, and it sets him off absolutely beautifully.
03:04I don't know if I managed to nail focus on that, it looked lovely.
03:08He's just poking his head over the top of the flower, and it looked stunning.
03:42Okay, I think I'm going to let him go.
03:44And carry on doing some macro in the garden, so I shall, um, catch up with you out there.
03:53Thank you again.
03:53Thank you again.
04:07Feel about me.
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