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Not my usual type of shot, and very difficult with a large format camera for a variety of reasons. I see these by the hundreds in the early morning, covered in dew, but never saw one as nice as this one. Very difficult to meter, and at $6 a shot, I don't like to bracket. The SLIGHTEST of breezes move spider webs as well, and with large format, it's hard to get fast enough shutter speeds to compensate for that. So here it is. My best effort at capturing the beauty and amazement I feel when I see such works of art. How do that do that?

I started out shooting the "old fashioned way" with a 4x5" field camera and by creating color transparencies. I then scanned them at either 1200 or 2400 dpi. Every effort is made to match the original transparency. That said, there was a time when I developed cataracts, and scanning and preparing images for this website became difficult. Now that I've had surgery and can see clearly again, some of the images seem a bit too saturated in color. That's because cataracts mute colors. It's like looking through window covered with a film of grime and dirt. The challenge and reward in 4x5" landscape photography is to capture things as they really are, and get the exposure just right. And at over $6 a shot, it pays to be very selective. ...