A Day at the Shai-Hulud Races
A simple diorama for Macro Monday's theme of April Fools Day silliness. A made up idea of, what would a tiny Sand Worm race look like?
So in honor of the vintage, Soviet era lenses used in the filming of Dune 2, I shot this image using a Helios 44-2, 58mm f2 @f16 with about 30mm of extension helicoids to shoot this macro. I used Siberian Iris seed pods as my sandworms. The pods are no more than 2.5 inches long.
The cinemaphotographer who shot this movie gave an interview recently where he explained that he only used vintage, rehoused, Soviet era lenses from Helios, Tair, Jupiter and Mir.
The inspiration for this silliness was shooting these dried out seed pods today and thinking that they looked like strange mouths opening up, and it hit me. I found what I was going to do for this Monday's theme. Up until that point, I wasn't going to do one for this week. I had no ideas, but sometimes you just need to go out and start shooting stuff.
My daughter, her boyfriend and my wife all helped me to make the riders.
A Day at the Shai-Hulud Races
A simple diorama for Macro Monday's theme of April Fools Day silliness. A made up idea of, what would a tiny Sand Worm race look like?
So in honor of the vintage, Soviet era lenses used in the filming of Dune 2, I shot this image using a Helios 44-2, 58mm f2 @f16 with about 30mm of extension helicoids to shoot this macro. I used Siberian Iris seed pods as my sandworms. The pods are no more than 2.5 inches long.
The cinemaphotographer who shot this movie gave an interview recently where he explained that he only used vintage, rehoused, Soviet era lenses from Helios, Tair, Jupiter and Mir.
The inspiration for this silliness was shooting these dried out seed pods today and thinking that they looked like strange mouths opening up, and it hit me. I found what I was going to do for this Monday's theme. Up until that point, I wasn't going to do one for this week. I had no ideas, but sometimes you just need to go out and start shooting stuff.
My daughter, her boyfriend and my wife all helped me to make the riders.