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The white specs at his feet and around his body are granules of pollen. This injured jumping spider was no more than 3 or 4 millimeters in length. I used extreme extension to get this magnification, so parts of the image are optically soft. Despite shooting this with an actual aperture of f/16, the calculated effective aperture with the extension was somewhere above f/80. I managed to shoot this on a tripod extension however, I handheld the diffused flash and triggered it remotely as a slave with an IR master in the hotshoe (I wrote about this the other day). Anyhoo, jumping spiders are a pain in the arse to photograph at any reasonable magnification because they are so fast and are always on the move. I'm sad this guy was hurt, but it aided in getting this shot. A completely different technique was used to capture this garden chameleon. I took 25mm of extension tube and placed it between a 1.4x teleconverter and a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens. I spot metered off the eye and shot this posed lizard on a white painted wall outside in shade. I like the composition.