Spitting Spider series (#2)

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

The 2nd image of the series. (Follows- Spitting Spider series (#1) - Indiawilds: Land of the Tiger. Conservation, Wildlife Photography, Communities (http://www.indiawilds.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6982))
In this image, the spider spits a liquid at the gnat. The liquid congeals on contact with the air to form a sticky, venomous mass. While firing the liquid, the spider sways from side to side, effectively throwing the thread in a zig-zag pattern, so that most the gnat is covered by the thread.
(The gnat on the left has already been killed.)

Canon EOS 500D, Canon 100mm Macro USM
Aperture-Priority AE
Tv 1/100
Av 6.3
EC -2/3
ISO 1600
Pardon the noise, it is due to ISO 1600 plus a little further sharpening. Also slightly cropped.

Thanks, C&C welcome.

[Vikram Gupchup]

Amazing documentation , Abhishek.
Waiting to see the whole sequence...

[Mrudul Godbole]

The details are nice. The liquid can be seen as a web totally covering the gnats. Its nice that you could actually witness the whole incident. Look forward to more. Thanks for sharing.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Superb!

There is never a dull moment in nature. The challenge is to develop an eye to locate it. One can see the threads from the spiders mouth. Exciting stuff. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bibhav Behera]

Brilliant work buddy. A rare treat!
Thanks for sharing. Waiting to see more :)

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Thanks everyone.

[Bhargava Srivari]

Much much better than the first image. Lovely natural history moment.

There seems to be some noise in the BG, but guess you could have avoided it (in the sense that the noise would not be discernable) if you had composed with only the leaf fully covering the frame?

tfs

[Abhishek Jamalabad]

Bhargava: Thanks. It would have been difficult to compose with only the leaf as the BG without making the frame too tight. Besides, I didn't have much time to think before clicking :). As far as noise is concerned, I see quite some noise on the leaf as well.