Here are a few pictures of GODZILLA

[dougle]

Good day mates , these are the first pictures I have ever posted of my First
T Blondi , I purchased what I believe to be a her on April 19 Sun 2009 at the
Omaha Nebraska herp expo from tarantula Inc , this spider has done well it is
feeding on large dubia roachs and an occasional small mouse every once in awhile, its still not full grown and I am calling it a subadult what do you all think?

 

[RottweilExpress]

Good god your pictures suck. Why not collect them all in a "dougle pics" thread so that it doesn't bog down the entire subforum with small threads?

 

[dougle]

Negative person

If you dont have anything postive to say want you just keep your trap shut!

 

[cacoseraph]

i would suggest taking your pictures at more of an angle to the glass. right now you are catching a fair amount of flash bouncing off the glass and back into your lens


if you experiment a bit you can get to where it is hard to tell you are taking pics though glass at all

 

[RottweilExpress]

If you dont have anything postive to say want you just keep your trap shut!

Collect your pics in one thread, that's positive for the entire forum. Other than that...Not much positive for your posts, no.

 

[dougle]

dougle reply

The picture looks great to me , I have know plans on becoming a professional
photographer for those of your who are making these negative comments maybe you are on the wrong site, this forum in my own opinion is just to give the hobbyist a chance to share simple photos of their spiders with others , this is not a photo contest on photo 101 ! or a photo perfection contest!

 

[VESPidA]

Dougle, your pics are just fine (and of a very nice spider!), but as mentioned before, please just condense your photos into one thread. Welcome to the boards!

RE, that was really tactless and unnecessary

 

[Draiman]

Good god your pictures suck. Why not collect them all in a "dougle pics" thread so that it doesn't bog down the entire subforum with small threads?

You epitomise the word "rude". What is your problem?

 

[RottweilExpress]

Fine fine, I'm sorry for being rude. Some hints for making the pics more appealing to the eye;

Try not to take the pics through the glass, or at least not throught wet och dirty glass.

Avoid getting the flash reflex in the pic, do it by chosing another angle, or even better, light up the scene with another source of light so that you don't have to use the camera flash to get the pic.

Try to take the pics so that none or only little of the artificial environment is visible in the pic, try to think that you want to produce a pic of a beautiful animal in the wild, or in a nice biotope. Seing plastic makes no one happy.

Don't take the pics upside down!

Wait or gently steer the target animal into a pose that shows the animals power, beaty, size or what you aim to show. Not just the first pose available with legs flailing or halfhidden by the setup.

Now, give this a thought, perhaps a new camera and I'm sure you will get 300% better at taking T pics! Just look in the Genus threads and you will understand.

 

[dougle]

Dougle response

First of all my vivariums are a work in progress second of all I am not using a
professional camera , I use a Black Berry Storm phone made by Verizon to take all of my pictures and I must say they look dam good coming from a camera phone it also has a built in video camera that I will be trying out , thirdly we cannot produce the wild jungles to the exact in these enclosed ecosytems that we artifically produce , and I must say I have not seen to many tarantulas in live vivs on this site that is the reason why I am doing something diffrent ,adding live plants and the proper lighting its a art you must learn , as a matter of fact I just added two florescent undertank glass cover lights to this setup to give the live plants all the lighting they will need to flourish and I will be posting this soon maybe even tonight , I will building live vivariums for all of my Ts I feel its the only way to go .