Mirror, Mirror
#macromondays
#myclosest
Well, this is not really my closest image, even though I've used the extension tubes here; but I wanted a little bit of negative space around the measuring device and the item that is paired with it, so I decided to go for a roughly 2 cm / 0,7 inches image frame.
The main subject is a broken ear stud which I've used for Macro Mondays before (please see the first comment). When the stud broke off the golf ball shaped glass bead, a shiny mirror surface (0,4 cm / 0,15 inches in diameter) was revealed (and said mirror surface also is the reason why these earrings keep breaking apart – the surface where bead and stud are glued together is too sleek), and I thought it might look interesting, if I placed the bead so that the shiny "breaking point" would reflect a part of the cm scale.
The measuring device I've used is a hexagonally shaped "Construction" ballpen that has an inch scale and several cm scales printed on its surface, and is also equipped with a level, a touch screen stylus (on the back cap) and a Phillips and a regular screwdriver (inside the back cap), very convenient. I've used modeling clay to prevent the glass bead from rolling off the ballpen and to keep it stay put at the right angle for a nice and sharp reflection.
The final result is a rather simplistic, manual two image focus stacking. The in-camera focus stacking function couldn't handle the image's depth of field all too well this time, so I simply took two photos, one of the 1:1 cm scale's reflection, and one with the glass bead (slightly more) in focus. I did some sharpening and denoising in DXO before I combined the images in Photoshop. Extra processing was done in Analog Efex (Classic Camera 5 with vignette and basic adjustments) and Color Efex (filters used were: "Brilliance and Warmth", "Lighten Center" and "Skylight").
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
Mirror, Mirror
#macromondays
#myclosest
Well, this is not really my closest image, even though I've used the extension tubes here; but I wanted a little bit of negative space around the measuring device and the item that is paired with it, so I decided to go for a roughly 2 cm / 0,7 inches image frame.
The main subject is a broken ear stud which I've used for Macro Mondays before (please see the first comment). When the stud broke off the golf ball shaped glass bead, a shiny mirror surface (0,4 cm / 0,15 inches in diameter) was revealed (and said mirror surface also is the reason why these earrings keep breaking apart – the surface where bead and stud are glued together is too sleek), and I thought it might look interesting, if I placed the bead so that the shiny "breaking point" would reflect a part of the cm scale.
The measuring device I've used is a hexagonally shaped "Construction" ballpen that has an inch scale and several cm scales printed on its surface, and is also equipped with a level, a touch screen stylus (on the back cap) and a Phillips and a regular screwdriver (inside the back cap), very convenient. I've used modeling clay to prevent the glass bead from rolling off the ballpen and to keep it stay put at the right angle for a nice and sharp reflection.
The final result is a rather simplistic, manual two image focus stacking. The in-camera focus stacking function couldn't handle the image's depth of field all too well this time, so I simply took two photos, one of the 1:1 cm scale's reflection, and one with the glass bead (slightly more) in focus. I did some sharpening and denoising in DXO before I combined the images in Photoshop. Extra processing was done in Analog Efex (Classic Camera 5 with vignette and basic adjustments) and Color Efex (filters used were: "Brilliance and Warmth", "Lighten Center" and "Skylight").
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!