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I've been pointing the Laowa 65mm x2 lens at quite a few things and tonight was no exception! I have a lamp with a sexy Edison bulb in it and I was trying to get ultra close with the lens. Took several attempts as they are moving all the time but I marvel at this lens and the detail it gets.
Taken for the macro Monday's group for the theme "The space in between" and this is a photo of a bulb for a car with the glass removed.
it shows the filament for the bulb which stretches in between the support wires.
The filament was lit by a torch and my smartphone was in the background displaying a gradient.
A macro of the filament inside a small light bulb. The filament frames the focused center of the bulb. Taken with a Canon 60mm USM macro lens. Type L for a better view.
The Glowing Lightbulb Filament. It is difficult to remove the reflections from the glass behind the glow, so I just left them as they were!
The filaments are outside our double-paned kitchen window, which had been cleaned inside, but not outside. At the moment that I snapped this, the wind was causing the filaments to dance wildly. I was surprised that the image actually had any defined lines.
“This World” by Mary Oliver
I would like to write a poem about the world that has in it
nothing fancy.
But it seems impossible.
Whatever the subject, the morning sun
glimmers it.
The tulip feels the heat and flaps its petals open and becomes a star.
The ants bore into the peony bud and there is a dark
pinprick well of sweetness.
As for the stones on the beach, forget it.
Each one could be set in gold.
So I tried with my eyes shut, but of course the birds
were singing.
And the aspen trees were shaking the sweetest music
out of their leaves.
And that was followed by, guess what, a momentous and
beautiful silence
as comes to all of us, in little earfuls, if we’re not too
hurried to hear it.
As for spiders, how the dew hangs in their webs
even if they say nothing, or seem to say nothing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe they sing.
So fancy is the world, who knows, maybe the stars sing too,
and the ants, and the peonies, and the warm stones,
so happy to be where they are, on the beach, instead of being
locked up in gold.
Filaments - Capturing high quality portraits of wildlife is something that I really enjoy. Even though Red-tailed Hawks are common, so common in fact, they are often overlooked as subjects, they can be difficult to photograph up close.
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph a juvenile bird recently. I was able to capture this closeup showcasing the beauty of the feather filaments, beak, and eye. The Nikon D850 really shines for wildlife portraiture - with both zoom lenses and prime lenses. I've also been loving DxO PureRaw - it really renders my RAW files so much cleaner and does a much more natural job cleaning up noise than Topaz Denoise (also a great program, but applies default sharpening even at a setting of 0, which causes artifacts).
View large for feather detail.
Species: Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis)
Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA
Equipment: Nikon D850 + Nikkor 200-500mm f5.6 ED VR, Handheld
Settings: 1/160s, ISO: 360, f/5.6 @500mm, +0.3 EV
Not sure I ever shared this one, but a nice bolt of lightning from a dying supercell south of Lamar, Colorado back on June 6th, 2017 with some tour guests!
Finally, after weeks of cloud I managed to catch a quick glimpse of the Sun.
The filament is around 300,000 km long.
Lunt LS152Tha/B34/DSII at 80mm and Grasshopper 3 camera.
A knew I had one of these old school (and now probably illegal!) bulbs kicking around somewhere waiting for such a moment! For todays Macro Monday theme of Silhouette
Strobist... 580exii high camera centre at white background 1/8 24mm
Ever heard of a Handkerchief Tree? This is the nickname given to the trees of the genus Brownea because they produce drooping tassels of young leaves that look like limp linen handkerchiefs. Most Handkerchief Trees generate beautiful fiery red blossoms that produce lots of nectar for their pollinators... hummingbirds.
During the day, the mature leaves droop over the flowers to protect them from the hot sun. Handkerchief Trees are native to the rainforests of South America but grow well here in South Florida. A slow-growing, small tree with very large heads of brilliant, exotic red flowers.
Brownea coccinea subsp. capitella, Brownea capitella, Rose of Venezuela, Scarlet Flame Bean Brownea coccinea subsp. capitella, Caesalpinioideae / Caesalpiniaceae
Brownea sp., Handkerchief Tree, Fabaceae
Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
A studio shot of a conventional tungsten light bulb in the process of blowing out.
This photo is quite heavily processed, being a composite of several shots at different stages during the burn out, some masking and some quite strong tone curve adjustments.
I took this shot for the latest CY special challenge on the theme 'Light/Dark'. It was based on a picture I saw about a year ago on Rich Legg's photostream. But I think I might have to try this again, because I didn't quite manage to catch the best of the smoke rising from the evaporating filament.
(E3528)
For this week’s Macro Mondays ‘Spiral’ theme, I have chosen to photograph the spiral filament wire that is found in a lamp bulb.
I raided the ‘prop box’ this week and came across the broken lamp that I used for the ‘Broken’ theme from back in June. The little spiral filament wire used in the lamp was an obvious choice! I hope a little silhouette and some shallow depth of field really draws the eye to the point of interest!
A simple ingle light set up this week: One Bowens studio strobe, with the light directed on to the background, with was covered in some transparent orange acetate. Post processing in Photoshop and Lightroom CC as usual.
Strobist Info:
430 EX II @ 1/4 on the right side and YN-460 @ 1/4 on the left side. Each with tracing paper for the "Softbox-Look".
Triggered by RF-602
Inspired by Herbert Wannhoff.
I had to fix my microscope lamp.
I took a macro of the lamp filament for this week's submission.
I used my Nikon, F mount with a T mount adapter, T mount adapter to Microscope eyepiece adapter, and slipped it into the eyepiece of my B&L Stereo Scope. No "camera" lens used.
I then used low voltage to heat the filament to produce the "radiant" glow. The two electrodes (white solder connections) are about 1/4" apart.
Sometimes the photo finds YOU!!
Amarílis "Sidney", also known in Brazil as "Fantasy", has conical, large, beautiful flowers, white in color with thin red stripes.
Its foliage is also quite ornamental.
I have always felt that clouds would represent softness. This montage includes this mornings sunrise (2 photos) plus the spun filiament arrangement of a flower I found recently.
“Do not be hardened by the pain
and cruelty of this world.
Be strong enough to be gentle,
to be soft and supple like running water,
gracefully bending around sudden turns,
lithely waving in strong winds,
freely flowing over sharp rocks,
all the while quietly sculpting
this hard world into ever deeper beauty," L.R. Knost