Posted in Arachnids, Art, Nature, Photography, tagged autumn, Canon 50D, Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, spider web, spider webs, spiderwebs, Tamron 150-600mm, webs, Woodbridge VA on November 9, 2018|
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During a recent morning walk at Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge, I came across some spiderwebs in the fields that glistened in the sunlight thanks to rain the previous night. Many of the webs were only partial webs and I wondered if perhaps the torrential rain had ripped them apart.
Light was mostly coming from the front, which made it a little tricky to get a correct exposure, but that kind of backlighting is the reason why the webs are visible.
The backgrounds were different for the different webs and most of the time I had to deliberately underexpose the images to have the webs “pop,” which meant that the backgrounds looked really dark. I was thrilled when I managed to capture the first image below with a background full of autumn colors.



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