Just a spider web

Scott_Quier

Woke up yesterday morning - great dew last night - and looked out the kitchen window into the back yard. Saw this. Not great shots, but fun and I thought they were worth a post.

My back yard is quite small, so, to avoid distracting background, had to shoot wide open. This accounts for the very shallow DOF, especially on the second one.

1. We get thes in our back yard about 3 or 4 times each summer (I have one just outside my front door right now). This one is something like 3 or 3.5 feet (1m to 1.3m) in diameter - one of the largest I have seen in a while. I kind of like this shot with the sunlight iridescing off the water on the web. The blown area is a couple of cars (white of course - oh well) in the parking lot of the apartment complex behind our place. Not much I could do about it, and I really did try!



2. This one shows that the web kind of had a bad time of it last night.


I'm glad I stopped and took these shots. About 30 minutes later, I looked out the window and the web was gone. I guess the spider got busy and recycled the web.

douglas

Great spider web shots, i like the dew and the angle is great.

Scott_Quier

douglas wrote:

Great spider web shots, i like the dew and the angle is great.

That's higher praise than I think these deserve. Thanks and thanks for looking.

Awais Yaqub

wonderful ! love your work

Skippy

Scott_Quier wrote:

Woke up yesterday morning - great dew last night - and looked out the kitchen window into the back yard. Saw this. Not great shots, but fun and I thought they were worth a post.

My back yard is quite small, so, to avoid distracting background, had to shoot wide open. This accounts for the very shallow DOF, especially on the second one.

1. We get thes in our back yard about 3 or 4 times each summer (I have one just outside my front door right now). This one is something like 3 or 3.5 feet (1m to 1.3m) in diameter - one of the largest I have seen in a while. I kind of like this shot with the sunlight iridescing off the water on the web. The blown area is a couple of cars (white of course - oh well) in the parking lot of the apartment complex behind our place. Not much I could do about it, and I really did try!
2. This one shows that the web kind of had a bad time of it last night.
I'm glad I stopped and took these shots. About 30 minutes later, I looked out the window and the web was gone. I guess the spider got busy and recycled the web.

Hi Scott....... I love these kind of shots....... the dew on the webs make them look like strings of pearls or fine lace work.

I like the way the light catches them too..... thanks for sharing.
Skippy (Australia)

GraphyFotoz

Nice shots!

I carry a piece of black cloth with me for things like this.
Trick I was taught back in my 35mm days.
Works great for flowers and web shots.

OR it being at home get a piece of cardbord from a box...good size...
blast it with flat black paint (cheap ColorPlace Walmart stuff) keep it around
for such times!

Used such a thing for this shot with natural light.
Imagine what a dewy web would look like!

Scott_Quier

GraphyFotoz wrote:

Nice shots!

I carry a piece of black cloth with me for things like this.
Trick I was taught back in my 35mm days.
Works great for flowers and web shots.

OR it being at home get a piece of cardbord from a box...good size...
blast it with flat black paint (cheap ColorPlace Walmart stuff) keep it around
for such times!

Used shuch a thing for this shot with natural light.
Imagine what a dewy web would look like!

That's a great idea. That shot is amazing!

And I have all sort of cardboard laying around!

gtc

also
if ,you are really keen, a sequence of the spider repairing its web can be very rewarding

Swartzy

Nice web Scott
That is cool. Love the dew. Then Graphy shows up with yet another cool trick.....man, what a neat place this is.