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I quickly made up a small "tank" from an empty, translucent, rubbing alcohol bottle. Added some bark from an old stump where the spider was found, and covered the cut-away open front with a 2x3" microscope slide. The diffused lighting was obtained by directing two flash units through the top and sides of the container.
Even at f16 or f22, DOF was frustratingly small, especially since I wanted the "face" and a good portion of the legs in focus. So I followed the spider around studiously, and when it paused in a good position I tried to shoot a quick stack.
All three were small stacks... 5, 12, and 3 images respectively. I used Rik's Zerene Stacker for these. The top two were at 1:1 with a Nikon D300. For the lower image I taped a 135mm enlarging lens to the front of the 105mm macro in order to get more magnification.
The spider's now back outside catching bugs, and I'm back to cleaning out the garage...
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