An extreme close-up look at spiderwebs…you will be amazed at the colors!

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Jackie Sones trained her camera at a spiderweb recently. Look at what her camera revealed!

Who knew there was so much color in spiderwebs?! A whole new world has been revealed.

Thanks to Jackie for allowing me to share her photos with you here. Jackie shares her nature sightings at this link: https://bodegahead.blogspot.com/

2 thoughts on “An extreme close-up look at spiderwebs…you will be amazed at the colors!”

  2. Hi, Suzanne,

    I do have a polarizer on my lens since I'm often taking photos around water, but I don't think it affects the color in the photos that much. I've been photographing spider webs up close for a few years now. The amazing thing is, those colors are there most of time, but they're not as visible to the naked eye. You can see the sections of the silk strands lit up by the sun, and sometimes you can see that they're colorful. When you zoom in and take a photo of those highlighted sections, the colors are phenomenal. Some conditions make them easier to see -- a dark background is especially helpful, and approaching from an angle that reduces the sun's glare behind the web is important. Since I use a digital SLR, there is a large camera sensor, I can set the shutter speed etc. manually, and later I can crop the images to focus on the highlighted parts of the web. But you can take similar photos with smaller cameras. My mom even tried with her cell phone recently, and you can tell that with some practice you could get some decent shots of the colors in the webs. If interested, you can read Dietrich Zawischa's explanation re: the colors in spider silk here:

    https://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/fileadmin/arbeitsgruppen/zawischa/static_html/spiderweb.html

    🙂 Jackie

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