I found a huge spiderweb near my house, so naturally I wanted to take a picture of it. It was a little hard to capture, but here is my best attempt.

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That does look cool. Did you see the spider web pictures in my Demon House community?

Guess I have to get cracking on that "Share your pictures" community I've been thinking of, since this would be a really cool addition to it.

If you wany to try and fix the blurriness, you should either photograph it when the light is brighter or use a tripod. You could probably get away with the type of cheap tripod you could buy at Best Buy or Good Guys for very little money.

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I was using my 10X zoom to take it with, and the light wasn't that good. Thank you for the suggestion -- next time I will dig out my tripod.

Yes, I did see your Demon House spider webs -- very cool.

Sue

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One suggestion: Get closer to the object you are photographing instead of using the zoom and you'll find the stability problem vanishes. It's very hard, even for a professional, to hold a camera steady enough to get a good still at 10x zoom.

That will make depth of field longer, though, which will make it harder to separte image from background. The high separation of image from background (i.e. the background being fuzzy) is one of the really nice things about the shot you took.

When you get your next camera, try to get one with image stabilization, which really helps with that problem, even with the long zoom. I have it in my camera, and it really helps.

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It was a difficult shot all the way round. The spider web was up very high, and I am not tall, so I couldn't get very close. In fact, I had trouble keeping it in my viewfinder at all.

Thanks again for the tips -- they are very helpful.

Sue

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