Incy Wincy

Incy Wincy

I saw this guy in my back garden a few weeks ago, so it was a quick shot with the tripod. I manually focussed (autofocus is not so good for this kind of thing) and tried several shots to see what would bring out the web in a nice way. I finally settled on using a little flash to boost the highlight detail on the spider. He was a very good model to work with, not moving at all for the whole duration! Click on the picture to see the larger version, he really comes into detail then!

Taken on my Pentax, focal length 82mm, exposure was 1/60th sec at f13, ISO 200, bracketed back 1/2 stop to compensate for the flash. I spot metered from the green leaves behind the spider to get an accurate reading.