Snail Shell
This is just a common snail shell.... the type of snail we see around here. (We don't seem to have those pretty colored ones here.)
The reason I liked this shell was that I didn't know snails could heal breaks in their shells, but obviously, that is what happened here.... if you look.
This is another Reverse Lens macro. I suppose I should mention that I also do focus stacking with most of these Reverse Lens macros.... I use the program Helicon Focus for that.
I wasn't entirely sure if this shell was empty... there was something in it, maybe just dirt. So I put it back out where I found it after its glamour photo session.
To anyone who wants to know how Reverse Lens Macro (or poor man's macro) works, I described it under this photo:
If you want to know what "Focus stacking" is, it simply means that I took several photos of this shell, each time moving the focus a little bit, so eventually I had about five photos, each one focused on a stripe of the shell (overlapping stripes, just like in panoramas).
Then I put the five photos into the program "Helicon Focus", and that program put the focused parts all together. (focus stacking really only works if you use a tripod, I have found.)
Snail Shell
This is just a common snail shell.... the type of snail we see around here. (We don't seem to have those pretty colored ones here.)
The reason I liked this shell was that I didn't know snails could heal breaks in their shells, but obviously, that is what happened here.... if you look.
This is another Reverse Lens macro. I suppose I should mention that I also do focus stacking with most of these Reverse Lens macros.... I use the program Helicon Focus for that.
I wasn't entirely sure if this shell was empty... there was something in it, maybe just dirt. So I put it back out where I found it after its glamour photo session.
To anyone who wants to know how Reverse Lens Macro (or poor man's macro) works, I described it under this photo:
If you want to know what "Focus stacking" is, it simply means that I took several photos of this shell, each time moving the focus a little bit, so eventually I had about five photos, each one focused on a stripe of the shell (overlapping stripes, just like in panoramas).
Then I put the five photos into the program "Helicon Focus", and that program put the focused parts all together. (focus stacking really only works if you use a tripod, I have found.)