Smile...
...You are on Camera ;)
It is strange how white changes with the light coming in from the windows and what is reflected from the things around the little macro scene... Technically, this is white velcro photographed against a dull white foam sheet, illuminated from above with my natural light photo lamp and the sunshiny light from the windows. I had an image finished yesterday but used the velcro strips as you would use it in real life: with the hook side and fuzzy loop side. But it looked somewhat weird with the fuzz. So I decided to start all over again and use two sides with the numerous tiny hooks. To make the "mouth" as small as possible, I cut two thin Velcro strips (about 1 cm / 0,39 inches wide) and stuck them together. The width of the scene is 2 cm / 0,78 inches.
The hooks had turned out better in the image I took yesterday because I was able to get closer to them with the Laowa 2x macro lens but I wanted the entire mouth shape in the frame so I decided to sacrifice magnification for shape and re-photographed the scene with the 30mm macro lens that has 1.25x magnification but also has the focus stacking ability which the all manual Laowa lens doesn't have. The camera was set to in-camera focus stacking (15 ORFs and JPGs) but I put the ORFs into Helicon Focus and combined them there (method C, radius 1) because Helicon allows better DOF control.
HMM, Everyone!
Smile...
...You are on Camera ;)
It is strange how white changes with the light coming in from the windows and what is reflected from the things around the little macro scene... Technically, this is white velcro photographed against a dull white foam sheet, illuminated from above with my natural light photo lamp and the sunshiny light from the windows. I had an image finished yesterday but used the velcro strips as you would use it in real life: with the hook side and fuzzy loop side. But it looked somewhat weird with the fuzz. So I decided to start all over again and use two sides with the numerous tiny hooks. To make the "mouth" as small as possible, I cut two thin Velcro strips (about 1 cm / 0,39 inches wide) and stuck them together. The width of the scene is 2 cm / 0,78 inches.
The hooks had turned out better in the image I took yesterday because I was able to get closer to them with the Laowa 2x macro lens but I wanted the entire mouth shape in the frame so I decided to sacrifice magnification for shape and re-photographed the scene with the 30mm macro lens that has 1.25x magnification but also has the focus stacking ability which the all manual Laowa lens doesn't have. The camera was set to in-camera focus stacking (15 ORFs and JPGs) but I put the ORFs into Helicon Focus and combined them there (method C, radius 1) because Helicon allows better DOF control.
HMM, Everyone!