Bridge Over Troubled Water

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Written by Webmaster Sunday, 07 December 2008 14:58

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“The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.”  Pablo Picasso

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Bridge Over Troubled Water
 
Spider webs show very interesting and delicate patterns which are quite difficult to capture on film since they are so thin that they blend with the background. It is also difficult to focus on them; usually the camera’s focusing system will prefer something with more contrast, in most cases the background. While checking my fish tanks I saw this web over one of them. It run across the tank, like a rope bridge while the droplets of water spread on it by the air pump made it look like a necklace. Spiders don’t like water in general (not house spiders anyway) so this one must have worked hard to build this web without wetting its feet. 

Photos by George J. Reclos
 
Shooting Data:

1. Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Tamron SP AF 180mm f/3.5 Di Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO200
Shutter speed: 1/250 at f/8, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 iTTL - FP
Image: JPEG edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added and resized.

2. Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Tamron SP AF 180mm f/3.5 Di Macro 1:1
Sensitivity: ISO200
Shutter speed: 1/250 at f/14, Manual mode
Flash: SB-800 iTTL - FP
Image: JPEG edited in Photoshop CS4, levels adjusted, sharpening added and resized.

 

 

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