How would you shoot this??

misterb

Walked out my front door, and in the bush- a great photo oportunity!

Dew droplets suspended in a spider web in bright sunlight at my back.

My question is: How and what technique would *you* use???

I used my 14-54 kit lens- I miss the 50mm 2.0 macro I traded for the E-30.

Richard

I moved this to the Technique forum.

Difficult problem here. The bushes make for a very busy background and the light is so strong that the web itself is invisible. Maybe some flash from one side? Dunno.

pathfinder

A lot closer with side or backlighting from a speedlight, if possible.

racer

were there is fine web with the small fine dew, I would have tried to take a macro shot of that. I think I would have ignored the large drops, unless you could find one with a nice reflection in it to macro

jogle

definitely shoot with a wide open aperture to blur the tree, if you can fit a speedlight between the web and the tree you could backlight the drops and drop the exposure on the tree a stop or two. If not you could grid the speedlight and have it coming down from on top to keep as much light from the tree as possible.

Or move around and shoot it from an angle to get a bit more depth of the photo.

Nikolai

pathfinder wrote: »

A lot closer with side or backlighting from a speedlight, if possible.

what Jim said

Cuong

This looks like the web is on the bush, so there's no way of getting a light between the bush and the web to back light it. In this case, I would go with Pathfinder's suggestion: move in closer and light it from the side.

Cuong