Moss
For Macro Mondays theme 'M'.
Some sprouting moss from a plant pot in my greenhouse was sprayed with a little water and set up using strong sunshine as backlight. I played around with a variety of compositions, but I wasn't very satisfied with any of them. Then I thought to try using my Raynox DCR-250 attached to the front of my macro lens - this was taken as a 17-shot focus stack of the wet moss, focusing on one of the reproductive structures that contains the spores. The Raynox attachment gives a very shallow dof leaving the body of the damp moss to provide attractive bokeh. Given that the 'head' was 4 mm long, the image spans about 2 cm.
Moss
For Macro Mondays theme 'M'.
Some sprouting moss from a plant pot in my greenhouse was sprayed with a little water and set up using strong sunshine as backlight. I played around with a variety of compositions, but I wasn't very satisfied with any of them. Then I thought to try using my Raynox DCR-250 attached to the front of my macro lens - this was taken as a 17-shot focus stack of the wet moss, focusing on one of the reproductive structures that contains the spores. The Raynox attachment gives a very shallow dof leaving the body of the damp moss to provide attractive bokeh. Given that the 'head' was 4 mm long, the image spans about 2 cm.