How to shoot spider webs

cobwebs can be seen everywhere in courtyards, back gardens, parks and forest areas. They are not only large, but also complex. Like celestial bodies, they are a fascinating photographic subject. All you need is a tripod and a wide-angle lens, a telephoto lens and an extension tube or a microphotograph. Your biggest challenge will be dealing with extremely shallow depth of field and related close-up photography. In fact, the slightest breeze may blow the cobweb and its owner out of focus. Do a test shoot. Carefully place a tripod in your position, avoid touching any spider web filaments, take some test photos, and check the exposure through your viewfinder. In this photo, my ISO is set to 1 and the aperture is at f/3.3. The depth of field is too shallow, so I can't get the sharp focus of the whole spider at this angle. The background and the central position of the spider are still unsatisfactory. Optimize the depth of field I adjusted the aperture to f/7.1 to give enough depth of field and keep some background. To avoid speed defects, ISO needs to be improved. 3. It is more satisfying to refine the composition and re-compose the composition, because I can create a better result without using background focus in the re-framing. Different from the first one, it has a better composition and retains some depth of field. 4. manually focusing on this photo proves that it is difficult to lock the focus with AF system because of the wind. Switching to manual focusing makes me focus quickly and accurately. 5. Using supplementary flash to illuminate the spider with the existing light source of the sun can't get satisfactory results, so I feel that using regional flash compensation can illuminate the spider and its woven web more evenly. The flash intensity at the moment of exposure transition must be reduced. 6. Brilliant backlight After the flash shooting, I want to make a further attempt, and use the changing position of the sun-sunlight to present a wonderful scene from the back illumination theme. Unfortunately, direct exposure to the net leads to terrible flash. 7. Dealing with the flash, using black cardboard, I made a temporary shelter for the scene. Keep it on top of the camera. Examining the pictures in the frame, I found that I could get rid of those annoying flashes. 8. Abstract composition When taking photos, you can create amazing abstract pictures from a screen oblique angle or partial fragments. Shallow depth of field may be a little unsatisfactory, but it is important to get accurate focus. Translation: aoye translated in the British magazine Digital Photography Source: Internet.