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Tips and help to get the webs to pop
Sep 19, 2017 16:03:26   #
Sean's Shots Loc: Des Moines , Iowa
 
I was out today taking photos this morning and found a big beautiful Garden spider in the center of his web. Much to my dismay when I got home I could not get the web to show up well. I tried several things in PP but to no avail. I also found a second web with lots of dew drips on it but again with web is not very visible. Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated.

Garden Spinder and his web
Garden Spinder and his web...

Dew Dripping Web
Dew Dripping Web...

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Sep 19, 2017 16:11:47   #
Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.
 
I find that managing the background is a high priority for dewy webs.


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Sep 19, 2017 16:15:11   #
Sean's Shots Loc: Des Moines , Iowa
 
How so?

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Sep 19, 2017 16:15:47   #
Sean's Shots Loc: Des Moines , Iowa
 
Beautiful image by the way.

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Sep 19, 2017 16:21:10   #
rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona
 
Looks like a lot of contrast. Darker background with shallow depth of field.
--Bob
Sean's Shots wrote:
How so?

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Sep 19, 2017 16:23:21   #
Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.
 
Sean's Shots wrote:
How so?


By moving perspective until the web is against any dark background. Of course not always possible, in which case I look around for another dewy web and dark background.

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Sep 19, 2017 16:30:51   #
mborn Loc: Massachusetts
 
Background helps plus contrast in LR


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Sep 20, 2017 14:15:58   #
James Van Ells
 
Try and get the web parallel with sensor to keep everything in focus, it keeps the web in same plane of focus. I failed to do that and lost some good shots.

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Sep 29, 2017 22:59:11   #
papa Loc: Rio Dell, CA
 
Sean's Shots wrote:
I was out today taking photos this morning and found a big beautiful Garden spider in the center of his web. Much to my dismay when I got home I could not get the web to show up well. I tried several things in PP but to no avail. I also found a second web with lots of dew drips on it but again with web is not very visible. Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated.


Background contrast, yup, and back or side lighting kinda like these...well, the spiders were the subject in their web.


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Sep 30, 2017 10:37:49   #
boberic Loc: Quiet Corner, Connecticut. Ex long Islander
 
you can make your own "dew" with a spray bottle with water. Add a tiny bit of dawn for a sparkling effect'

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Oct 3, 2017 12:18:57   #
gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast
 
You might try an off-camera TTL flash, camera in Manual mode, ISO 400, aperture at F4 if you're parallel with the web, and a high enough shutter speed to make the background ambient light go dark. I use high speed sync to do that. The flash controls exposure on the subject and a high shutter speed controls the effect of ambient light.

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