Spider in my Garden
Here is a spider I just snapped in my back garden. It was sitting on its web, just under our classy garden table.
The second photo shows the setup: a Canon 300D, Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM lens, on an EF25 extension tube. You can just about make out the spider to the left of the tripod head, below the table top. The lens was set at 105mm, and the exposure was 1/60th second at f/16. I used a mirror to provide some fill in light, and this had the effect of making the background seem darker. The camera was on aperture-priority, and I under exposed by 1 stop. This is the full image: it has not been cropped, tweaked or fiddled with ![]()











