Hanging

This is a spider that was hanging out on my third floor deck. How he got up there I have no idea... but he built a huge web connecting the railing to the ceiling. He was large himself, maybe 1 1/2 or 2 inches across including the legs.

So I set up the camera at night, and used live view to focus in the dark, then took some shots with the flash. (There was a bit of ambient light but very little.) I thought the glow and detail that turned out were great, but I did miss focus on quite a few. The legs on this aren't entirely in focus, but I don't think it detracts too much. And I didn't get another chance either, as the spider is gone - a victim of birds I'd guess.

Being taken in the dark, the white balance was pretty much whatever I thought it should be. I cooled this down quite a bit from the flash temp, and thought it showed the detail best, even though the spider was a browner than this. Does that work? Anyone want to see it warmer?

Thanks for looking...

Olympus E-520
Zuiko 70-300 @ 300 mm
f/9.0
1/180 s
Tripod
PS CS5/ACR for RAW conversion, usual processing, web prep