Spider Net

Hello everybodyFor weeds I am trying to photograph a spider web, Finaly and hardly, i find one, but I find it prtty hard to take a picture to the web, it's invisible to my digital camera ( Canon PowerShot A 350 ) ,somebody help me to find out how can I make it and get a spider web image my self.Thank you

A spider web is pretty much invisible to the autofocus beam of a point and shoot camera. The web is so thin that the focus beam will just go right through it. One way to capture a web is to either use manual focus (and focus bracketing to help if you are off by a bit) of by placing your hand directly behind the web, focusing on your hand, then moving your hand and the camera should be focused on the web. If you have control of it, use a larger aperture so that you have a larger depth of field and the web wont be outside that and blurry.

I hope I make sense. Good Luck

What would really be nice, is to simply have a spider on the web, then focus or "spot' focus on the spider. Then you got-er! Umm, maybe I will see if I can find one of those little critters myself. I just hope that one of these Florida spiders don't eat my camera!

Thomas S. wrote in post #2830710
A spider web is pretty much invisible to the autofocus beam of a point and shoot camera. The web is so thin that the focus beam will just go right through it. One way to capture a web is to either use manual focus (and focus bracketing to help if you are off by a bit) of by placing your hand directly behind the web, focusing on your hand, then moving your hand and the camera should be focused on the web. If you have control of it, use a larger aperture so that you have a larger depth of field and the web wont be outside that and blurry.

I hope I make sense. Good Luck

Actually you want a smaller aperture - the bigger numbers represent a smaller opening in the lens. So use as small an aperture (large an f/stop number) as you can.

If you can catch the web early in the morning, while it's got dew on it sparkling in the sun it'll show up better in your photos too. Some people mist webs to simulate this effect.

Thomas S. wrote in post #2830710
A spider web is pretty much invisible to the autofocus beam of a point and shoot camera. The web is so thin that the focus beam will just go right through it. One way to capture a web is to either use manual focus (and focus bracketing to help if you are off by a bit) of by placing your hand directly behind the web, focusing on your hand, then moving your hand and the camera should be focused on the web. If you have control of it, use a larger aperture so that you have a larger depth of field and the web wont be outside that and blurry.

I hope I make sense. Good Luck

manual focus like it has been stated. then set the distance (move the bar) to 4" or 6" or whatever distance it would take to get it in focus. im assuming the a350 should have manual focus

Jon wrote in post #2833045
Actually you want a smaller aperture - the bigger numbers represent a smaller opening in the lens. So use as small an aperture (large an f/stop number) as you can.

Yeah, thats what I meant. What he said. In my head I still dont have the whole larger number/ smaller aperture thing down. It comes out confusing to me then I 'try' and fix it. Damn brain.

The way to remember is that the aperture at f/8 is 1/8 the focal length. At f/4 it's 1/4 the focal length. And 1/4 is bigger than 1/8 so f/4 is bigger than f/8.

Fellows, thank you so much,
All of you try hard enough to help me, and I think i get the point, the problem is my digital camera, Canon PowerShot A350, it's not good enough for this stuff, by the way i get a new spider web, I think it's my lucky week, and I check the best time to photo it, it was the end of the day, that is means now dew drops and this is bad (

I was not familiar with your Canon 350, and I just looked up the specs. I see it's from 1996. In the world of digital cameras, I'm afraid that's a real dinosaur. I still don't know that it wont take a picture of your spider web, but I doubt that it would do a good job. The good part is, you can buy a compact digital now for much less than your 350 was, and it will take a fantastic picture of your spider web, and many other things.

both of these were taken with manual focus .....

those are extremely large spider webs i dont think i have ever seen them so big before!!!

well, I agree with TheresaH, they pretty big spider net, and they are awsum, good job.

Nice shots, though I would liked to have seen a more shallow depth of field. However, I realize that's not always easy with the compacts. Be that as it may, they are still great shots.