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Ed Knepley | all galleries >> Galleries >> spiderweb > 9/6/05 - Yet Another Pearly Web
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06-SEP-2005

9/6/05 - Yet Another Pearly Web

At the edge of some wetlands where I was looking for dragonflies. Turned into a web-morning instead. This one and webs very close by were dew covered. Others, less than 50 feet away were bone dry - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/48834544
Should have used the Nikkor lens. This Tamron is a bit softer on shots like this. Of course, shouldn't expect sharp focus when shooting something a light as a spider web with 1 full second shutter speed. This section of web is probably about 2 inches (5cm) on the long side - teeny tiny dew drops. Getting the camera's film plame (CCD) and the web mostly parallel wasn't that easy since the web bowed instead of being flat - plus I was about 3 feet away thus making it more difficult to judge parallism. Shoot & pray.
Those are plant stems in the background.

Nikon D70 ,Tamron 70- 300 1:2 plus 1.4x TC
1s f/16.0 at 300.0mm full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Steven Jusczyk07-Sep-2005 06:35
Beautiful detail and background. Well done.
Jeffery Stahlman07-Sep-2005 04:29
great capture
Guest 07-Sep-2005 03:40
BEAUTIFUL!!
Pic Chick06-Sep-2005 23:46
Spectacular. The beauty of digital - shoot as many as you have to and hope one turns out! Great job!!
Mike Moats06-Sep-2005 21:54
Excellent comp and details Ed
pda_pin06-Sep-2005 20:20
It is excellent. Great choice of background.
Gary Hebert06-Sep-2005 19:06
I like this one the best Ed... absolutely stunning work... and what a powerful bg... love it..:)
boegheim06-Sep-2005 18:59
Wow this looks lovely
good dof, beautiful
Jola Dziubinska06-Sep-2005 18:52
Precious pearls, lovely photo.