Thanks all for the kind votes and comments! I never expected this kind of finish.
This spider is not really itsy bitsy, but not that big either. I got in really really close with my 100mm macro, and did some focus stacking for more detail. The overall size of the spider was about the size of a U.S. nickel.
Some commented on the lighting. This was lit with a flash in an umbrella. The Flash was also pretty close to it. I'm very surprised that it didn't spook and run away.
The background gradient is because this was in my hot tub gazebo, and the white part is from the frosted window while the dark part is from the wood. The hardest thing about this shot (besides keeping my son away from the spider) was getting that background to not be distracting.
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