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Web Gate
Started July 14, 2009 @ 12:29am by RobindeM
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RobindeM
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| Web Gate | July 14, 2009 @ 12:29am | 
My first post, as I am a newbie to TME (thanks, Pam, for turning me on to this!) I am in the infancy stages of the love affair with my camera (Nikon D50) and have just stepped away from the preset modes. I am determined to understand the ins and outs of proper exposure and making the camera see what I want it to see. I know this site will become my educational and inspirational right arm.
I shot this (fingers crossed that I added the image url correctly and the photo actually shows up) in 2004 during a work-related trip to Melbourne, Australia using a friend's Nikon D1X. Yeah, I'm sure I shot it in Auto (cheater-cheater-pumpkin-eater!) but still love how the lighting showed off the unusual intricacies of the spider web.
I look forward to more (current) posts plus learning from all of you seasoned photographers out there! I also promise not to be so wordy in my future posts. 
Robin - PPY
"WE are the music makers...and WE are the dreamers of dreams." - Willy Wonka |
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Flo
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| July 14, 2009 @ 8:22am | Welcome, Robin! How exciting for you to be in the initial stages of a love affair with your camera! If this image is any indication of your shooting abilities, you already have a great eye for composition. I do love how well that web shows its details. And I also love the B&W conversion.
The web is intricate and so is the wrought iron decoration that the spider attached it to.
Some might suggest cropping from either side, but I think that the way you have framed this to include a tiny piece of the iron at left plus another "head" of the iron at right gives us a strong suggestion that this decoration is on a wider scale than the little part of it we see here.
BTW, please be wordy, lol. I sometimes wax wordy, too.
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Wes
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| July 14, 2009 @ 8:31am | Love this capture, Robin. Welcome to the community. This, to my eye and memory, isn't the typ8cal spider web as frequently seen, the usual circles and radii from the center. I like the difference here and if my imagination can go crazy, I can envision each of the holes being filled with stained glass colors. They look so much like stain glass shapes to me. Very nice to look at.
I guess one might look at a crop to simplify by getting rid of the pieces of gate to the left and right but those objects don't bother me. I tried making this a vertical pano but somehow it just didn't look right.
I like it as it is.
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Bug
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| July 14, 2009 @ 10:34am | Welcome to the community RobindeM,
When I view your photograph, I think of a worn, torn doily caught on the gate after a wind dropped it. The finials (?) look like two stoical guards unmoved by the lace wrapped around their heads.
I like how the light makes the spider’s web stand out. Well done.
Charlene
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RobindeM
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| Web Gate | July 14, 2009 @ 12:10pm | Yipeee!! Comments from those with talent! Thank you, everyone. The kind words gave me goosebumps, or "goose b-b's" as my 5-year old says.
Robin - PPY
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Becky
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| July 14, 2009 @ 10:20pm | Welcome, Robin. I like that the spider has made this "man-made" object her own. The web shows up very nicely and I like the whole image.
Becky |
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Flo
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| July 15, 2009 @ 8:31am |
Quote (Becky)
Welcome, Robin. I like that the spider has made this "man-made" object her own. The web shows up very nicely and I like the whole image.
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Actually, Becky likes this because it doesn't show the spider! 
Flo - PPY
"May we live in peace without weeping. May our joy outline the lives we touch without ceasing. And may our love fill the world, angel wings beating." aziza
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Becky
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| July 15, 2009 @ 6:19pm | Ah, yes, Flo, there is that aspect.
Becky |
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