Working the Web

It was just one of those mornings where everything clicked.  I got some decent pictures of the sunrise and a bunch with the weekend crowds visiting Monte Sano State Park.  But, while hiking up the Bankhead Trail, I noticed this spider sitting in the middle of its web.  The problem was, I couldn't get an angle on it where the Sun would light up the web.  (It was hanging over a ditch.) Anyway, I keep working it and noticed I could get the holes in the forest canopy to show up as bokeh, so I went with that. 

And I really had to work for this one.  The autofocus wouldn't lock up on it so I would have to focus as well as my old eyes would allow, then look at it on the review screen, enlarged, to see if I was in the ball park.  It was tedious but worth it.

Nikon D7200 — Nikon 18-300mm F6.3 ED VR

300mm

F8@1/20th

ISO 1,600

White Balance on Flash

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