Spider Eyes

Thanks!

Well done K A and  a quite a list of hardware used to get the shot. You note 1/1000s shutter speed is this a typo or are you using some form of high speed sync (sorry not familiar) with Nikon-Speak? Heck of a rig to support four flash units. Are these all attached to the camera or set up off camera?  Tech notes list f/45 as the aperture, as I recall Nikon puts effective aperture in the metadata, correct? If so what was the physical setting on the lens, f/22? Sorry for all the questions but curious macro photographers want to know ;-) Once again fine work. 

Thanks very much!  In this case the flashes were nearby.  I often do run everything on camera though.  Nikon has a system called the r1c1 that allows you to hang two or three (or more) sb-r200 mini flashes off of the end of the lens.  These are controlled by the pop up flash or larger flash (in my case the sb700) in the hot shoe.  I checked and f  45 and 1000th of a second are correct.  The diopters go on the end of the lens, so this is the actual aperture setting on the lens.  I have in the past used a teleconvertor with my 85 mm macro, but I haven't gotten any good results with the 200 mm macro.  With regards to the sync on the flash I'm not really sure what the flash duration is - I'll have to look it up.  Thanks.