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Images => Critique => Topic started by: bendle on July 04, 2015, 10:45:49

Title: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: bendle on July 04, 2015, 10:45:49
This spider has had no trouble filling his larder. He was in a web that was about 70 cm wide between two trees on the side of the road.
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on July 04, 2015, 11:31:01
Spiders in their webs often are trickier to shoot than one would imagine. They can move fast, and the web itself dances in and our of the sharpness zone with every little gust of wind. Even though it's perceived dead calm, like with flowers, the wind picks up immediately you haul out the camera :D. Must be a special Nature Law for that I suppose.

The web itself and its strand often are better viewed in contrast lighting (light entering from behind), so suggest you try shooting the subject in the opposite direction to get a feel of its appearance under such illumination. Metering is frequently fooled so I often knock down exposure -2 EV or so. You have to try in the field to see how all these elements come together and are rendered in your picture.
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Frank Fremerey on July 04, 2015, 16:46:39
Disgusting. We are all food for other beings and others are our food. Why is the world made to murder an eat and shit for a living?
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Frank Fremerey on July 04, 2015, 16:48:48
Nothing to critisize in the tech field from my perspective. Very well done.
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Gary on July 05, 2015, 18:56:08
Gawd that looks huge. I would rather you shoot such creatures than I. Well done.
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Bjørn Rørslett on July 05, 2015, 19:02:23
Disgusting. We are all food for other beings and others are our food. Why is the world made to murder an eat and shit for a living?

The Entropy Principle ...
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: elsa hoffmann on July 06, 2015, 00:05:00
nice capture.
Title: Re: The Golden Orb Spider
Post by: Jacques Pochoy on July 06, 2015, 00:46:14
Looks like a big one... :-) We have much more common ones here, but just as voracious... !