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Pretty purple petunia plant. The colour version of this image is on Instagram here
Treatment: monochrome conversion
A dripping chrome plated hot tap in the bathroom.
This is one of those rare occasions where I feel the almost sepia like colour version of the same image makes a better shot than this monochrome one! See also my 2006 shot of the cold tap in the same bathroom taken with a different camera.
Treatment: minor CCW rotation with resulting crop and monochrome conversion via MacOS Photos
Super luxurious kaya toast at the Shangri-La Hotel in Orchard. $12 bucks and worth it. Butter tasted like a fine French butter, kaya was perfect, and two different kinds of bread.
For those not familiar with this, kaya toast is a traditional Singaporean breakfast, usually served with a poached egg and coffee or tea. Kaya is a type of local jam made with fragrant pandan leaves, palm sugar and egg. Making it is an art form and there are many varieties of it across Southeast Asia. I fell in love with it when I first arrived here and enjoy it quite often.
No web, not sure how the grab was made. The bee was squirming but the spider was having none of it.
Ambient light only.
Image 1/100 the 2023 edition of 100x project
I am going back to macro for my first 100x project. Lets kick off the year with a bold glass vase, backlit by a sunrise.
This is part of the handle of a small wicker indoor plant pot holder. 'Nuff said?
Originally one of my candidate submission images for the 52Frames week 16 'Abstract' challenge. It was shot using the E-M5 Mark II's focus stacking function, which automatically brackets eight images at different focus settings then combines them in-camera. As it was my first focus stack, you can see I didn't have the settings quite right :(
Treatment: black & white conversion favouring dark tones; minor noise reduction and a 2-radius high-pass sharpening.
Here's an item I acquired a few years ago. It's an Olympus OM-D E-M1 Mark II mirrorless camera fitted with an M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens, plus an extra supplemental lens (a later addition).. After using the camera for several months, I found that it is a dream to use for macro work. The lens provides 1:1 magnification and the camera's image stabilization is wonderful. One-to-one magnification is very nice, but I decided to try different supplemental lenses to boost the magnification. The large silver barrelled item mounted on the 60mm is the large "common main objective" from an American Optical "Cycloptic" binocular microscope. This objective has a clear aperture of 34mm, is a multi-coated achromatic triplet, and is a joy to use. I didn't even have to use any kind of adapter to fit it to the 60mm because it has the same filter thread size... 46mm. It looks like it was made specifically for the 60mm. The objective is used in the same orientation as it's used on a microscope. In the past I've bought a few junk (beyond repair), AO Cycloptic Microscopes just to scavenge the objective. The most recent ones I purchased were from a seller who repaired microscopes and was retiring. I got several "new old stock" objectives, still in their plastic baggies for a price much lower than the junk scopes cost.
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