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The Structure of Life

Gallery: Macro & Close-upPosted October 4, 20052,188 views11 comments

I made this image of a spider web in my front lawn yesterday. It was early enough that the dew was still a major part of the web. The dew drops reminded me of the structure of the universe with all objects seperate but interconnected.

1DMK2 with 100 Macro. Evaluative metering at ISO 400 with EV-1. 1/640 and f 4.5. The background is the OOF grass of my lawn.

All comments are most welcome.

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by George Hall, Jr on October 4, 2005 at 2:18 PM

Very nice design and capture. Wonderful OOF BG. Nice one.

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Comment posted by William Brozy on October 4, 2005 at 7:40 PM

Awesome image Ed... Being a web nut/dew nut this is really sweet. I love the organic against the geometric and this image depicts this dichotomy wonderfully. I'm surprized this image hasn't evoked the same in the rest of us - but again maybe not. But don't sweat it -

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Comment posted by James Pawlowski on October 4, 2005 at 9:41 PM

This image could not be any better, great capture Ed.

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Comment posted by Bill Garber on October 5, 2005 at 8:00 AM

Very Nice!

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Comment posted by Jerry Dalrymple on October 5, 2005 at 8:31 AM

I second all the above Ed, great capture.

Jerry Dalrymple
Loveland, Ohio

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Comment posted by Laurie Darcey on October 7, 2005 at 11:10 PM

Very, very nice. Perfect cropping job, too!

Wow!

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Comment posted by Randy Harrison on October 8, 2005 at 6:24 PM

Really nice Ed. I don't know how I missed it. Well captured and excellent composition.

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Comment posted by Jayne Caruso on October 10, 2005 at 11:54 PM

This is wonderful

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Comment posted by Doug Benner on October 13, 2005 at 7:14 AM

Beautiful image. Love the balance in the overall presentation. Congratulations.

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Comment posted by Anne K on October 13, 2005 at 9:25 PM

Ed,
Wow!

That is absolutely ncredible. I'm really impressed. I have tried and tried to get good spider web pictures. You got the focus and exposure on this just exactly right. Way to go!
Anne

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Comment posted by Ed Cordes on October 13, 2005 at 9:40 PM

Thank you to all who commented on this image. I was lucky enough to have this web at the end of my drive way hanging on to a post and a cement Lion. I happened to notice it when I went out for gas about 8:30 AM on a day that was fogged in until about 10 AM. I set up with my macro lens and started shooting. I made about 10-15 images with various angles over about an hour. I tried to get the BG as OOF as possible and still keep enough DOF to get all the web in focus. As the Sun burned off the fog the lighting improved, but a breeze came up. This particular image was made waiting patiently for the web to settle between breeze gusts. Fortunately, the Sun gave just the right light on the BG and allowed me to capture the refracted image in the dew drops. A few minutes later the Sun burned off the dew and the magic was gone.

Of course my non photographer friends think I just walked up and shot the picture. LOL

Thanks again for all your kind comments.

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