
Originally Posted by
Julie Kenward
John, I think your whites are too bright and I don't care for the distracting images going on behind the web. I think f4 or 5.6 would have made a stronger image with less distractions because almost everything appears to be on the same focal plane.
I'd try toning down the whites a bit in pp. If you captured this in RAW, you could easily recover most of the blown highlights. Make sure next time you check the histogram after you take the initial image to look for flashing highlights and make multiple images at various f stops so you can choose the one you like the best once you've downloaded your day's images.
You did a great job of getting the spider in nice detail. If it were mine, I'd crop the image right below the spider to delete the hot white zigzag at the bottom.