Name: Sudith Rodrigo
Picture title: Colours Through Spider’s Eye
Category: Young CUPOTY (U18)
Nationality: Sri Lankan
Age: 16

Sudith says:
‘I shot this photo in my home garden during the Covid-19 lockdown that was imposed in Sri Lanka. Since there was nothing much to do or anywhere to go, I started to garden in my backyard and focused on my macro photography.

When I was planting one day, I saw a spider web in a winged bean plant. I ran into my house to grab my camera and tried to capture a photo. But it was not easy since the spider kept moving and it was hard to focus with the extension tube attached.

I like the colour combination of green, yellow and gold in this picture. The golden colour is from the sunlight coming through a tiny hole in the plant leaf. I angled it slightly to bounce the light off the spider’s web.’

Technical information:
Canon EOS 7D
Canon 50mm f/1.8
ISO 200
1/250sec at f/8
Accessories: 65mm extension tube, Triopo TR 960 mark 2 speed light, soft box
Post processing: Basic adjustments in Photoshop and noise reduction with Denoise AI

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