Spider_11 by Misha883
Close
Hover over top left image to zoom.
Click anywhere to exit.
Members remain the original copyright holder in all their materials here at Renderosity. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth is prohibited and is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise.
Description
Thank you everyone for the nice comments about my previous web posting ;-)
After that encouragement I decided to post another. There is a little less jpeg compression on this one (sorry about the size), but I was somewhat dissapointed about the "focus" on the first one. I'm obsessive about such things.
Speaking about focus... These webs were particularly frustrating. Never enough depth of field! I've had some luck with taking two images at different focus settings, and combining them in PShop. Works great with things that don't move! But there was a little wind this morning, so this is a "straight" image with no PShop tricks. If anyone has any tips here they'd be appreciated.
Hope yoy like this one.
Comments (13)
Slynky
alpha's gonna love this...
Syyd
Congratulations in a spectacular web....I spent some time in the last month trying, and didn't get very far, so I know what it takes somewhat to achieve this...its amazing how graceful nature is when captured by such an eye and still hand as yourself
Alpha
Shooting in fog is great... What f-stop were you shooting at and what was the lens? Just so you'll know, we get a lot more in depth in the photogrphy forum. It's a lot easier to post questions and get answers there :)
Misha883
OK. Thank you all for the encouraging comments. I'll check out the forum when I get the chance. I like to learn from other folks' images, or share mine, and usually don't like to talk much, but I can talk for hours if encouraged! Most of my stuff lately is for the Web (www variety), or printed on a inkjet, so I've tended to use fast 400-800ASA film in my old 35mm canon. Anyhing with greater resolution/dynamic range just gets lost in the bits anyway. So may as well get maximum speed or depth. The lens I like to use for this sort of thing is a 180mm macro. The lighting was actually fairly bright, but even. [Sometimes you get really lucky!] So, finally, to answer your question, f-stop was probably down about f8 or f16. Not a lot of help when movement of only a fraction of an inch makes a big difference! Tripod would have helped my old shakey hands, but there was a (real slight) wind, so things kept changing anyway. There has got to be a real slick way to process images like this to increase the depth of field. As I said, I've had real good luck combining two images (like a flower) in PShop, to focus on the nearfield and the far field. But when things move it is not an easy thing. [I should explain, I'm a software engineer by profession, so am always looking for an easier way to do things.] Anyhow, for someone who doesn't like to talk, I've used a lot of bandwidth. I hope to continue to learn from all of you.
Styxx
This is truly a magical picture, Very well done!
Antoonio
I'm diggin this too, hoping to see you in photo forum.
PhrankPower
Love it!
PunkClown
Oh boy, if it's at all possible this is even better than your last one! Magic!! Keep on posting your photos!
Narasha
Just wonderful!..
AGOR
MARVELOUS!!!!!!
Visitor42
Oh man I can't believe I missed this one. Wow.
Kixum
I've had excellent success taking this same picture but ONLY when they were flat webs AND I could get in the right position. One other thing that has helped me is shooting this subject in B and W and doing my own processing to push the exposures and providing more speed when shooting it. Plus B and W is more forgiving on many levels. Bottom line this is a TOUGH shot. Excellent results for hand held too BTW.
LostPatrol
Just thought i would take a trip back in time, Superb shot, the detail and DOF are fantastic all the best for 2005