Baby's Breath, with imperfection
So, the Macro Monday theme was "Imperfection". They mentioned how often a macro photograph shows some imperfection once you get it on your large computer screen. And they wanted us to show that on purpose. An imperfection which mars an otherwise perfect scene.
Well, this was difficult for me, because I always remove the imperfections, or go take the photo all over again if something icky shows up when I look at it large.
So, first I tried actually adding something wrong to the things I was photographing, but that felt even more weird. So I bought a bouquet of Baby's Breath, and started taking macros of the tiny flowers. After doing a lot of focus stacking and then studying the resulting images, I finally found a good shot with an imperfection. A little hair, or fuzzy, which I normally would have removed. And the imperfection was even in focus!
This was done with reverse lens macro. And focus stacking, both with Helicon focus, and manual stacking. The tiny hair was just... there. So I left it there.
Baby's Breath, with imperfection
So, the Macro Monday theme was "Imperfection". They mentioned how often a macro photograph shows some imperfection once you get it on your large computer screen. And they wanted us to show that on purpose. An imperfection which mars an otherwise perfect scene.
Well, this was difficult for me, because I always remove the imperfections, or go take the photo all over again if something icky shows up when I look at it large.
So, first I tried actually adding something wrong to the things I was photographing, but that felt even more weird. So I bought a bouquet of Baby's Breath, and started taking macros of the tiny flowers. After doing a lot of focus stacking and then studying the resulting images, I finally found a good shot with an imperfection. A little hair, or fuzzy, which I normally would have removed. And the imperfection was even in focus!
This was done with reverse lens macro. And focus stacking, both with Helicon focus, and manual stacking. The tiny hair was just... there. So I left it there.