Taking the picture must have spooked it, cuz the next thing I know, I'm on my back...
Judo flip!
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It's not actually looking at anything. The pseudo pupils occur because you're staring head on into one of their photoreceptor 'pixels', which is absorbing all of the incident light. Meaning there's no light to reflect back into your eyes. Hence, dark pupil-like spots appear on the compound eyes.