now for something completely different. i found this cobweb in schönram bog on one of my random visits. early morning, full of dew, a beauty of architecture and form follows function philosophy. creating an image was a bit tedious, of course the angle finder was at home, of course there was just a light breeze that invalidated all the support the tripod could give, so this image is the best out of many attempts.
the postprocessing turned out to be difficult: lots of options, but no immediately convincing one. i tried black and white but had the feeling that i lost to many nuances in the cobweb itself. so i ended with this, desaturated and contrast increased and – maybe the most important manipulation – a cropped out sky. that sky offered a nice warm color but in my eyes was too distracting. but i am still not fully content, as there seems to be too much foreground not adding to the picture. on the other hand i’d prefer to stick with the 2:3 ratio. so this is probably not the final version.
Isn’t it fun to stumble upon an unusual subject to photograph? This cobweb “cone” is something I’ve never seen before.
That’s certainly an unusal “architecture”. Well spotted! I guess, that’s actually one of the major benefits from being addicted to photography: One goes around in the world with ones eyes more open.
The desaturation seems to work, for me at last. But it would be interesting to see the “original” photo…