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This isn't my regular kind of post here.😉 I just want to share with you my helping lights for macro photography. I watched a video last month of this tip and wanted to try it myself. It worked indoor for my last photos but I want to use it for outdoors. I used here a velcro wrap tie and some cheap mini led flashlight keychains an wrapped around my heavy used Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens. You can turn on/off the ones you need, add more lights or rotate the band around the lens to adjust the light position. Well, it worked for me and I'll post some macro photos from outdoors soon, too windy and cold now!!! (I already have a ring flash, too.)
Ornaments are even more special when we give them our special touch!
Macro Monday project - 12/29/08
"Meaningful holiday ornaments/decorations”
Fred had previously flown in with this large branch. I watched while both Fred and Ginger worked together and placed it on the nest. When Ginger flew down for a bite, Fred decided it needed to be rearranged.
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Looking to the south. A river was interrupted by the debris hill, making the pond. There used to be a town called Gekko-cho, meaning moon light. So the lake is called Gekko pond.
Horonai, Mikasa, Hokkaido. Fujica AZ-1, Tamron 28mm F2.8 ( CW-28 ), Kodak Microfilm Imagelink HQ exposed as ISO 40, developed as described previously, scanned with Plustek OpticFilm 120 + VueScan, edited with GIMP. Bigger sizes: www.flickr.com/photos/threepinner/50696023828/sizes/> up to 10000 × 6579 pixels compatible. Learn DIY development and upgrade to film !
DIY Headband! A very cute headband with paper flowers attached.. By Request of our very own Whisper Mizin.
District 5 starts tomorrow and geek. is in the Indie District!
<3 All original mesh & can be found in 8 diff colors. One shown in pic is with black & white comics look :3
geek. <3
My first attempt at the DIY Bokeh wall. Leather rose on granite with crumpled aluminium foil as the wall.
Don't try this at home!
It has been going on for longer than you might think:--
In the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt dating to 1550 BC, a section is devoted to eye diseases.
Celsus the Greek philosopher of the second century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method.
Couching is the earliest documented form of cataract surgery. As a cataract is a clouding in the lens of the eye, couching is a technique whereby the lens is dislodged, thus removing the opacity. Although couching is nowadays routinely practised only in remote areas, it was a precursor to modern cataract surgery
Maybe DIY Orthopaedic surgery next.
Visit my website at akikorhonen.org for more projects, thanks!
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My DIY ringflash that I've been doing for the last few days.
(Photo, starting from top left) Description
(1) I started with a 24 cm diameter steel bown and a normal food can.
(2) Added some tape on the bowl and drew the cutting lines with the can as a guide.
(3) Bottom from the bowl and can removed. I also shortened the cat a little bit. I first drilled a hole on the bottom of the bowl and then cut the metal with metal cutters.
(4) The two parts connected with strong epoxy that was meant for metals.
(5) Hole for the flash made and few connecting holes drilled. Also the needed aluminum parts are cut and bent in shape.
(6) The bottom part covered with black hockey tape. In the photo it has a Manfrotto quick attachment plate on it. Also has a hole for attaching it to the tripod mount of the camera.
(7) The top part where the flash is attached. Made some holes for the DIY TTL flash cord.
(8) I added some plastic parts for the flash hole to make it look nicer and to prevent light from escaping too much. Next I added some putty to finish it (wasn't necessary but I got too carried away again with the building).
(9) Putty and the bowl fully sanded and waiting for some gray primer and matte black finish.
(10) Painted and finished. Added some black hockey tape on the can's edge to prevent it from scratching the camera.
(11) Close up of the flash hole. A little bit of aluminum foil tape on the inside and black hockey tape on the edge.
(12) White thin fabric streched and being glued on the edges to get some diffusion to the light. There is a rubber band holding the fabric to the can.
See the finished righflash:
* DIY ringflash finished, without camera
* DIY ringflash finished, with camera
Cost: bowl 3€, can 0€, aluminum 1€ + some extra costs from paints etc. but I'm not going to count them to the total. Cheap anyway.
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Do not try this at home.
That van Gogh moment.
Otoplasty — also known as cosmetic ear surgery — is a procedure to change the shape, position or size of the ears.
Maybe DIY brain surgery next.
Well, after giving Shirl a little too much lip over her capabilities as a barber she down tooled so I resolved to try and carry out the haircut myself. I had last been the the barbers in early March so I was a long way overdue. The faces I am pulling can only be put down to concentration and trepidation.
At a first glance the results don't look too bad, but what you can't see is the state I made of the back of my neck. Shots taken at arms length with my iPhone.
I've acros this idea on a creative blog online and LOVED the idea so much I wanted to make it for our home.
So this weekend was all about DIY and this is the end result!
A very happy-covered-in-white-paint Paula
and some fresh green in the livingroom together
with a small part of my camera collection!
My husband and friend have been busy doing some DIY this week and the 'toolbox' theme popped into my mind. Another one ticked off the list :o)
117 pictures in 2017 (23) in or from the toolbox
Oryctes nasicornis, European rhinoceros beetle, 32 mm
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As I've mentioned in a couple of recent posts I've been playing around with an experimental solution for wide angle macro shooting. I promised I would elaborate on it, so here goes!
I recently posted a more detailed version of this on my Swedish blog: makrofokus.se/blogg/2016/9/22/diy-makro-fisheye.html The English bot-translation is actually quite good.
Otherwise, please have a look the first comment below for a summarized description, photos of the gear and more sample photos!
This image is stacked from four exposures in Zerene Stacker but it's not really focus stacked but aperture stacked (explanation below!).