[Leica] Hope

[images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)]

I love the photo and the reason behind photographing it.  I leave all
spiders alone.  We have spider webs all over the house.  I figure the
spiders are eating all of the bugs that I'd really rather not see.  Unless
they are black widows or brown recluses (and we have plenty of both) spiders
are pretty harmless compared to the bugs they eat.  Photograph them and let
them live!

Tina

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:43 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:

> Thanks for your kind words Montie.
>
> This was one of those situations where it didn't go at all as planned.
> The evening before I made this one exposure
> Ann pointed out the subject to me when she discovered it
> had created a web between a porch wall and our grill.
> There was no light to speak of that evening.
> Ann asked me to "kill" it (she fears spiders).
> I replied, "Well I could destroy its new condominium
> and end its life and purpose on this earth.
> Or I could wait for the morning light to be right and make a lovely
> photograph."
> The next morning I went out on the porch
> and the early morning sunlight was peeking between clouds and grazing the
> web nicely.
> I turned around and walked upstairs to get the camera;
> and by the time I returned (under two minutes) to the subject
> the light was gone; complete and dense overcast;
> and the subject on a covered, aged cedar porch.
>
> I decided that I needed to "grab a shot"
> because by the time light became "ideal"
> the critter could be gone or dead or ?.
>
> I racked the 100 mm out to max magnification
> opened to 2.8, dialed in the correct exposure to 1/30th,
> took my "I am a tripod" on my knees stance,
> focused by swaying a minute amount back and forth;
> and bobbing up and down to rotate the plane a tad;
> and when I "saw" the photograph - squeezed off one shot.
> Chimped the screen to see if I "froze" anything - looked decent.
> Today - I worked it a minimal bit in Lightroom.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 3, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Montie Talbert wrote:
>
> > Seems to me this is a particularly well done photo, George.
> >
> > Lighting, exposure, crisp detail and excellent
> > color rendition (right up to the tiny yellow pupils in
> > front of the eyes), I'm curious as to how this was lit??
> >
> > By design, I've done very little micro/macro/long FL,
> > just don't have the patience for working with DOFs measured
> > in mms or less :)  Glad others on this list feel differently
> > as much of the macro imagery posted here is stunning!'
> >
> > Montie
> >
> >
> >> Many of us (image posters) seem to be
> > looking close these days
> >
> > Here's another macro
> >
> > <http://www.imagist.com/blog/?p=3217>
> >
> >> c&c always enjoyed
> >
> >
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Tina Manley, ASMP
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