Without a doubt, the simpler something is, the more possibilities that exist to explore it in different creative ways. You only have to know how to observe what surrounds us. Lately I have felt limited where I live since everything is artificial and distances are tremendous. Luckily for me there is an area with a lot of woods and life, where I can walk, take photos and reflect.
This afternoon I went for a walk to do this, disappointed because it is always the same birds, the same landscape and the same absence of people (since they live attached to their cars). The sun was going down so I decided to return to the apartment when suddenly I saw how a spiderweb was backlit. Nothing spectacular yet I decided to take a picture of it.
This was the result:
I was surprised by how this thread refracted so many colors. I got closer to contemplate it directly without the camera and all those colors were there. Excited and nervous at the same time because the light was fading, I took some more pictures. I decided to show the colors manifested by the web more clearly so I took an out of focus photo.
It didn’t make sense since unlike the colors that a prism refracts (the three primary and 3 secondary ones), this silk in some irregular way had many more gradations of color and without any specific order.
Finally, I took my lens and used it backwards. (This turns it into a macro lens).
It was so much magnification that I couldn’t find the silk thread in my camera’s viewer, so I took the distance to a leaf as a reference and upon doing this saw there was another backlit spider web stuck to a leaf. It was the perfect moment in my mind. It took a while until I got the correct lighting since with the lens unmounted it is all trial and error….until I got the result I wanted which I quite liked.
Thanks for reading about my experience. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. It’s the small details that make life something marvelous. All thanks to the light!
Daniel Barreto.
Here are the macros of these incredibly luminous colors.
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