SPIDER!!! are you Scared ?

Signature Spider
These spiders have many names around the world, they are known as an Argiope, a Black and Yellow Garden Spider or a Writing Spider in North America. It is known as Wasp Spider in Germany and the rest of Europe and the St Andrews Cross spider in Austrailia. They know it as KOGANE-GUMO in Japan and East Asia. There are 75 different species of this spider but they all look the same. Their colours vary in between their stripes but they all keep the black and yellow stripes, for example they could have a blue or red thin ring in between the stripes and their heads could be a different colour.
They build their web only about a meter off the ground to catch the low flying insects such as bees and wasps that travel from flower to flower. Their web is almost invisiable, only for the zig zag strips on the web you wouldnt see it. These zig zag strips are known as the stabilmentum, they form these strips to warn bigger animals of its location, so they wont destroy it by walking through it.
When they have the web built, they line up their legs with the white strips of zig zaging silk. The centre of the web is hollow and this is where the spider sits. They group their legs together to appear as a four legged creature but also for another reason. When their legs are together, their hairs on their legs intertwine and act as a sun reflector along with the bright white X in its web. They do this because they know bright colours attract insects such as bees and wasps. Their legs reflect the sun and with their brightly coloured body they fool the insects into thinking they are a flower, pretty sneaky wouldn’t you think.
Like most spiders the male is much smaller than the female, and after mating the female will kill the male. The male spins a web along side the females web known as a companion web, after mating the female will lay her eggs onto this companion web and wrap them up into a sac. This sac can hold from 400 to 1,400 eggs inside, they hatch in the autum but they remain locked inside until spring. Spiders are canabals and they eat each other to stay alive in the sac until they are strong enough to break through the sac walls.
Signature spiders are able to eat an insect twice its size, and this is all they eat. Their venom is harmless to humans like most spiders but will bite you if you start poking at it. Other than defense these spiders have no interest in biting anything larger than itself. Their venom is used world wide for therapeutic medical agents and used as an agent in some beauty products.

EXIF's
Camera Make and Model : Fujifilm FinePix S3200
F Stops : f/16.0
Exposure Time : 1/400s
ISO Speed : ISO 64
Exposure Bias : 0 steps
Focal Length : 36mm

Taken from a Point and Shoot Camera Critics Welcomed

Neat spider, the way the web is made is interesting to, thanks for the spider lesson.

Thanks for presenting such a complete picture of this fascinating creature...

any critics guys i know the pic is not that good i would try to take better next time for which i need ur comments on the flaws

Get closer & try to change the background so as to avoid distractions...I will blacken out cluttered backgrounds to avoid distractions by using a fast shutter speed,small aperture & a speedlight (then again my camera has a sync speed of 1/500th, most cameras don't have this fast of a sync speed though)

@screamin scott i took this picture using a Point and Shoot how can i add in a speedlight? i got another version of the same image tell me if that is better

Is this pic better or the one above

Since you used a point & shoot, it makes the way I do it a bit harder to do. I would suggest then to use a black cloth placed behind your subject to try & neutralize the background. That may still be a problem depending on your camera if there are no manual settings. Your F stop in this shot was F16, which increases the DOF & that means the black cloth (or whatever else you were to use) would likely be visible...Sometimes there are no easy alternatives & in that case, just getting the image that please you is what's most important. You should always try different angles when shooting and focus on the entire image, not just your primary subject, so as to avoid background conflicts...

Better in that the background is neutralized, but it becomes harder to see the spider & most of it's web...

my_wave wrote: Is this pic better or the one above