Woven Silk

[gemstar]

Hello, I'm new to this forum and to the wonderful adventure of photography.
I welcome any advice and opinions you may have. :)
Thanks, gem
I took this picture with my Canon S45 on macro.



settings: of course I've had to do some tweeking on Photoshop Elements 2 and removed the colour, but these are the original exifs.

Spiderweb 3, macro, 1-200, f5.0 ISO 50 AWB.jpg
Camera Model Name
Canon PowerShot S45
Shooting Date/Time
12/08/2004 10:06:07 AM
Shooting Mode
Manual
Photo Effect Mode
Off
Tv( Shutter Speed )
1/200
Av( Aperture Value )
5.0
Metering Mode
Center-weighted averaging
ISO Speed
50
Lens
7.1 - 21.3 mm
Focal Length
7.1 mm
Digital Zoom
None
Image Size
2272x1704
Image Quality
Fine
Flash
Off
White Balance
Auto
AF Mode
Single AF
AF Range Mode
Macro
File Size
1007KB
Drive Mode
Single-frame shooting

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid137/pb6e0d4589608fafa94a13a8253c3afc8/f743f13b.jpg

[steven]

Your link to you picture appears to be broken.?

[Sendide]

Just Wonderful, I really like a lot the angle you chose as well as the BW.
good job and welcome to the forum
regards
Kh

[gemstar]

Thanks for you encouraging comment.
gem

[Sailor Don]

gemstar,

Good photograph of a spider's web. Good depth of field, good lighting, and good sharpness.

Like Steven, I had trouble opening your image file. I had to "right click" on the empty image box and issue the Open File command. I wonder if you may have an error in your image setup. Maybe the [/img] is missing at the end of the image URL?

[Andy_T]

Great shot ...

I especially like the high contrast between the dark and light areas of the photo.

Best regards,
Andy

[PhotosGuy]

Nice shot. I'd have been tempted to stomp on the plant making the white spot at 4 o'clock from center! :lol:

If that's the spider in the center, I'd like to see it better, too.

[gemstar]

Thank you for all your positive comments. As far as the white blur at 4 o'clock I'm not sure how to get clone it out without messing up the web, but I agree it would be nice to get rid of it. Sorry no 'icky' spider!
Any suggestions?
I'm not sure why, but sometimes the picture is there ok and others it seems to go to a place where no one knows it's name :lol:
Again, any suggestions. I'll try to repost the URL and see if that makes a difference.
gem

[ajax]

I like it--I've been trying to get a decent shot of a web on our clothes line and haven't hit on the right shot.

I feel a twinge of guilt as I remember the first day of photography class in college [back when the earth cooled]--the instructor snarled "...and the first one of you who turns in a photo of a spider web gets an automatic F in the class." He thought it was overdone and trite. But, hey, anything worth doing is worth over-doing, right? :D

[gemstar]

Thx Ajax I appreciate the kind words and I agree with you, anything doing right is definately worth overdoing :lol:
Gem