Garden Spider

[John Robinson]

Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus)
Its that time of year again.
D7000
Contrast down 1.
On board flash
HDI High
Sigma 150 mm macro
400 ISO
80th @ f14
levels / histogram adj. (paintShop pro )
Image Guru
Slight crop.
Mono pod
Should have tried a two image stack!
Cheers
johnR

[Ron Conlon]

A stack attempt on this might have a high degree of difficulty if there was some movement of the web bits and might have sent you to retouch ****. But always worth a try. Lovely seasonal pic, with nice background, the web showing up nicely, and the spider well captured.

[Steve Maxson]

Hi John. Very interesting patterns on this spider! The image is sharp where it most needs to be - though a little more DOF (either through stacking or backing a bit farther away from your subject) would make the image even stronger. You might consider some NR on the background. Your built-in flash worked quite well here. :S3: