Raindrops in spiders web

[LordV]

Some dreaded raindrops in spider web shots. These were between the rungs of a ladder leaning against my rear garage wall. The shots have been focus stacked to get both the drops and the refractions in focus.

Brian V.

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[Ken Ramos]

I tried this at one time and failed miserably Great images there Brian , they remind me of those little molecular models that we had way back in high school.

[Mike B in OKlahoma]

Now this is exotic! Very cool, and the background was well-chosen.

[rjlittlefield]

Some dreaded raindrops in spider web shots.

OK, I'll bite. Why are these "dreaded"? They're exquisitely well done on all counts -- technically excellent and very attractive, at least to me.

I suppose they might get boring after the first couple of hundred...

I am curious to know what that pink thingie in the background really is, though.

--Rik

[LordV]

Thanks Ken , Mike and Rik for looking and commenting. Much appreciated.

Rik - I said dreaded as theses tend to be one of the "stock" starter shots for new macrophotographers

The spiders web was between the rungs of a ladder leaning against my garage above a window. I put a plastic bottle onto the window ledge to add some BG colour - think it's a "vanish" bottle I use as a mister in my greenhouse and no I didn't use it to create the drops . It's a similar thing to placing flowers behind dewdrops to create a coloured BG and to have something nice in the refracted image.

Brian V.

[Bruce Williams]

These images remind me a bit of some of the fractals I generated about 10 or 12 years ago using FRACTINT.

Beautifully clean images artistically pleasing too. A well executed project IMO.

Bruce

[rjlittlefield]

I put a plastic bottle onto the window ledge to add some BG colour - think it's a "vanish" bottle I use as a mister in my greenhouse and no I didn't use it to create the drops . It's a similar thing to placing flowers behind dewdrops to create a coloured BG and to have something nice in the refracted image.

Ahh, got it! I guess if I'd looked upside down at the bigger images, I could have figured that out. Didn't occur to me at the time...

--Rik

PS. The earlier poster was Mike, not Calvin. (Calvin was the source of his signature quote...from the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, I believe.)

[arlon]

Very cool pictures. I tried stacking some rain drops on a flower awhile back and got absolutley nowhere. I'm envious! Arlon