by Howard Cheek
Is it Halloween yet?
After seeing Richards web laced in dew, I was inspired to go out & try a spider/web shot again..
Subject in partial shade so I used ringflash.. It sometimes helps tone it down with a layer or two of scotch tape, but I failed to do it this time.. My ringflash needs to go into the shop, can't use the manual settings. All comments welcome & have a great weekend!
F/14, 1/200th, ISO 125, 5DM2, Sigma 150mm f/2.8 + standard ETTL auto flash with a -2 camera exp bias.
Comments
3 commentsVery nice, Howard. The spider stands out well from the nice bg, and has excellent detail and color, and I also like the look of the web. Have a great weekend, too.
In full disclosure here's the original. There was a bright web strand near the lens that had to come out..
Arachnophobia at it's best here, Howard.......
I'm generally not afraid of spiders, however, like most critters I do hold a respect for the ones that pack venoms. More often for me it's snakes and not the smaller things. But after a neighbor was bit by a violin spider years ago and almost died I learned even the small guys can pack a wallop........
This is an excellent look at this what appears to be a very large spider. The exposure looks very good and I do think your repair of the strand was necessary and as a result makes this work nicely as a finished image.......
btw: speaking of the small guys, as kids we use to have small sand scorpions running around the sandy wash near our house. We thought nothing about it and walked around bare foot all the time. However, as a teen I was fishing at the Salton Sea one day and was in a bait store and saw a very large scorpion incased in plastic and commented to the owner that it looked like one bite from it and you'd be a goner. His response shocked me, he said, "oh heck no, it's the little sand ones you got to watch out for".....yikes.......