I was out trying to photograph a bee when I found this small spider right under my nose. For those arachnophobics out there (which includes myself), it's actually very small - only about 0.75" across.
I took about 30 shots of the spider at lots of angles and got by far the best results on manual focus at minimum focal length.
As post-processing I used USM (first) then upped the contrast and brightness a little.
Hopefully this won't get slated for not being an insect.. A DPC thread /did/ say spiders were ok by common definition, honest!
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This is one of the better ones of the spidershots. Your background is sufficiently blurry (if not very exciting) and the sunlight hitting the threads of the web highlight them well. Plus, your spider is actually in focus and on the right side of the web. Like it :) The biggest distraction is the blown out sky, I think you could significantly improve the photo by cropping as much as possible of the top.
Btw, since there's the hot discussion going on, I feel spiders are within the challenge guidelines and any score I give is purely based on the photo quality. Just thought I should add that. :)
Neat shot. I find webs very hard to shoot. I have heard of many ideas about spraying them with water, or even hairspray. Pretty spider. I think it is like mine here: //www.justineo.com/htm/a025.htm
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