Dan Perovich's Cyberfront Property

1/60 sec @ f/4.5, ISO 400, 200 mm (EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM)  I talk a short photowalk around the neighborhood tonight to find something interesting to make a picture with.  I stumbled upon several spiders setting up shop on the pool house lamps tonight.  The size of this particular spider was intriguing.  To put it into perspective, if you put this spider on top of a quarter, at least 1/3 of each leg would be hanging off the edge.

I made the shot using my tripod-mounted XSi and 580EX II flash mounted in the hot shoe.  I used the overhang of the roof to bounce the flash back down onto the spider.  I also threw on a full CTO gel onto the flash so that the light from the strobe would match the color of the pool house light at camera right.  This marked the first time that I actually used the gels to match the strobe produced light to the ambient light.  Since the the picture is cropped so tightly, I am not sure that I would have been able to notice the difference in light colors if I had not used the gel, but at least I feel good in knowing that I technically shot the picture properly.