It's Automatic!
Macro Monday: #Closed
Size of the Frame: 2 cm / 0,78 inches
First official image leaked of the brand new Rainbow Engine™ in celebration of its start of production. Its prototype is currently fuelling the Starrider Bulli T2 "Woodstock" special edition model (see first comment, please) that is cruising the galaxy on an emission-(and mud)-free mission of Peace and Love. What you see here is the core of the Rainbow Engine™, an intricate, yet super simple (do I sense a contradiction here?), and incredibly elegant mechanism entirely driven by light particles, and operated by the magic phrase...
...Screeeech!!!! Which is the very unpleasant sound I hear every time I turn my little Lumix LX100 on and the flaps of the automatic lens cap (which are pushed open by the extending lens) scrrrratch along the UV filter attached to the precious Leica lens. Actually, the automatic lens cap is a very convenient thing (much nicer than the regular lens cap which you'll either lose, eventually, or will have it dangling around on a titchy ribbon). Actually. But if you want to use the original Panasonic automatic lens cap, which you want to, because, hey, you've paid for it, right?... it's original accessory, right?... you can't use a UV (or other) filter at the same time to protect the lens, because it has not been designed high enough for filters. So I had to buy a third-party automatic lens cap which is high enough for filters, but just not so for regular(ly high) filters, but a regular UV filter is what I'd bought together with the camera. Sigh. After one and a half years of torturing myself (and my camera) with that gruesome opening sound and process it's about time to finally buy an ultra slim filter, I guess... Oh, and what was it I wanted to say in the first place? It's a detail of the automatic lens cap that you see here. Which you'll probably have guessed by now.
Technicalities: I'm happy to say that this is one of the shots that actually turned out the way I had imagined them before I started shooting. And it's also the very first time I managed to use the glass prism in (almost) the exact way I had imagined it before the photo shoot as well. To capture the automatic lens cap was my first idea for the theme, but I thought that it would look a little boring just by itself. What is photography all about? Light. So I thought I'd add a little light to this. Preferably light with a special "shape", or colourful light. Because my idea was that light itself would do the magic trick of opening the lens cap, as if the camera itself was addicted to light - which in a way it is: light as an "Open Sesame!" phrase. I played around with the prism's triangular shape, and got a few nice captures of a triangular light shape that pointed right at the centre part of the opening of those three mechanical flaps of the lens cap, and the light shape almost looked like a sharp tool which could pry open the firmly closed flaps. Nice. But in the end I settled for the rainbow colours, because that's what I was aiming for in the first place. To create the rainbow I had to hold the prism really close to the lens cap which is the reason why the cap itself, which is actually silver-coloured, looks black on the photos. Black = space = space-themed capture ;-)
Processed in Luminar 3, preset "Detailed Warmth", with extra filters Detail Enhancement (only "small" at 100), Foliage, and HSL; and in Nik's Analog Efex, Preset 7, Film Preset No 2 / 1 (second from above), and vignette; back to PS where I added the four-colour frame and my name.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a pleasant week ahead, dear Flickr friends and macro nerds!
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It's Automatic!
Macro Monday: #Closed
Size of the Frame: 2 cm / 0,78 inches
First official image leaked of the brand new Rainbow Engine™ in celebration of its start of production. Its prototype is currently fuelling the Starrider Bulli T2 "Woodstock" special edition model (see first comment, please) that is cruising the galaxy on an emission-(and mud)-free mission of Peace and Love. What you see here is the core of the Rainbow Engine™, an intricate, yet super simple (do I sense a contradiction here?), and incredibly elegant mechanism entirely driven by light particles, and operated by the magic phrase...
...Screeeech!!!! Which is the very unpleasant sound I hear every time I turn my little Lumix LX100 on and the flaps of the automatic lens cap (which are pushed open by the extending lens) scrrrratch along the UV filter attached to the precious Leica lens. Actually, the automatic lens cap is a very convenient thing (much nicer than the regular lens cap which you'll either lose, eventually, or will have it dangling around on a titchy ribbon). Actually. But if you want to use the original Panasonic automatic lens cap, which you want to, because, hey, you've paid for it, right?... it's original accessory, right?... you can't use a UV (or other) filter at the same time to protect the lens, because it has not been designed high enough for filters. So I had to buy a third-party automatic lens cap which is high enough for filters, but just not so for regular(ly high) filters, but a regular UV filter is what I'd bought together with the camera. Sigh. After one and a half years of torturing myself (and my camera) with that gruesome opening sound and process it's about time to finally buy an ultra slim filter, I guess... Oh, and what was it I wanted to say in the first place? It's a detail of the automatic lens cap that you see here. Which you'll probably have guessed by now.
Technicalities: I'm happy to say that this is one of the shots that actually turned out the way I had imagined them before I started shooting. And it's also the very first time I managed to use the glass prism in (almost) the exact way I had imagined it before the photo shoot as well. To capture the automatic lens cap was my first idea for the theme, but I thought that it would look a little boring just by itself. What is photography all about? Light. So I thought I'd add a little light to this. Preferably light with a special "shape", or colourful light. Because my idea was that light itself would do the magic trick of opening the lens cap, as if the camera itself was addicted to light - which in a way it is: light as an "Open Sesame!" phrase. I played around with the prism's triangular shape, and got a few nice captures of a triangular light shape that pointed right at the centre part of the opening of those three mechanical flaps of the lens cap, and the light shape almost looked like a sharp tool which could pry open the firmly closed flaps. Nice. But in the end I settled for the rainbow colours, because that's what I was aiming for in the first place. To create the rainbow I had to hold the prism really close to the lens cap which is the reason why the cap itself, which is actually silver-coloured, looks black on the photos. Black = space = space-themed capture ;-)
Processed in Luminar 3, preset "Detailed Warmth", with extra filters Detail Enhancement (only "small" at 100), Foliage, and HSL; and in Nik's Analog Efex, Preset 7, Film Preset No 2 / 1 (second from above), and vignette; back to PS where I added the four-colour frame and my name.
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a pleasant week ahead, dear Flickr friends and macro nerds!
Deutscher Text folgt...