Taken for Macro Mondays "Less Than An Inch " theme

I had to raid the wife's knitting box for this week's entry.

#Macro Mondays #Less than an Inch. LEDs on a printed circuit board - Nikon D300 with 55mm micro nikkor, 2x teleconverter and 36mm extension tube.

Steel shavings have nicely aligned at the tip of a screw bit. The diameter is about 8 mm, the total field of view is approximately 20 mm by 15 mm.

"Every flower of every tomorrow are in the seeds of Today"

Canon EOS 6D - f13 - 15sec - 100mm - ISO200

- for challenge Flickr group: Macro Mondays,

theme: Less than an Inch

- not the slightest idea from which wild plant this seed is,

found it during a walk through the fields.

For Macro Mondays Less Than An Inch theme.

This is an old sporting medal won by a relation in "hop step and jump" in 1924.

This week I have got as close as I could to a thimble. I like the shadow the morning sun made on the side of the thimble. HMM

HMM all...

A small local park at the top of a hill was once a private burial ground for some of the early settlers in our area. This person died in 1902 aged 72.

“And the Spring arose on the garden fair,

Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;

And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast

Rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.”

― Percy Bysshe Shelley

A part of a primrose, less than an inch, for Macro Mondays

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If you fave it, please, post a little comment, it's a pleasure, thanks a lot :-)

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This photo had received more than 54 faves a few days ago, before the "bug"

D’avance, grand merci.

A brass plated button from my old RAF tropical uniform, less than an inch, as the button itself is only 20mm across.

MacroMonday February 26th: Less Than An Inch.

This is the copper tassel on the 'antique' candy bowl. The tassel is less one cm long.

MINOLTA AF 35-70/4 + 16+10mm macrorings.

Un pouce de lumière

I was trying all day for submit a perfect #LessThanAnInch macro. now I get it Right!

A watch that was given as a leaving present from our friends and colleagues in Georgia, set with an appropriate US state quarter in the middle, there is only 22mm of the watch visible in the picture.

Tiny deer on my finger for Macro Mondays Less Than an Inch

A measuring tape twisted/bent into less than a square inch.

Shot with an old 50mm Nikon lens on Nikon D800. To achieve the magnification seen here, three macro rings (12mm + 20mm + 36mm) were attached between the lens and the camera.

Two inexpensive speedlight-clones were used to light this subject. One was held about left of and a foot above the subject. At 1/128 power, it was triggered by camera's built-in flash in commander mode. The other, also at 1/128 power, was placed a foot to the right of subject, pointing at a wall behind the subject. This flash, in slave mode, was triggered by the other flash. The subject was no more than an inch away from the front of the lens. Color/contrast adjusted slightly in lightroom/photoshop.

Best viewed in lightbox

~ "MACRO MONDAYS" ~ "LESS THAN AN INCH" ~ "2/26/18" ~

~ "Semi clear plastic pink rose" ~

Well, Cinnamon Life to be exact. #MacroMondays #LessThanAnInch

The ball is a half inch in diameter.

This picture is imperfect, sorry, but my camera is in revision , so i used my old one for today...

Macro Mondays

While looking for super small objects to test my new macro extension tubes, I found this little earring staring at me.

Setup : 18-55mm kit + 21mm extension tube

Hard challenge this week, but I have found this decoration on a small pot: it is less than an inch!

The cake is a handcrafted object, made for the wedding of a nephew of mine (there were confetti inside the pot).

Happy Macro Monday

For Macro Mondays, smaller than an inch. Someone smashed the window of the bus shelter and all the bits were lying around, though cordoned off. I pocketed a large piece, thinking it might make a good photo background, but it broke up into small pieces. Here are two of them; the height of one on top of the other comes to 5/8 of an inch and the width of the bottom piece about half an inch. Just measuring with my eye, I think the glass plus negative space fits into the size restriction.

Finally some sunshine after the rain. Found this tiny flower blooming for this weeks Macro Monday. HMM!!

Thank you for your visit!! :)

For #Macro Mondays theme less than an inch. The stone is 6mm square. Red Stone with plastic reflector. 50mm Nikkor lens on reversing ring and bellows.

for Macro Mondays - "Less than an inch"

The challenge here was, without a scale in the photo, to capture something that was obviously identifiable as WAY under an inch in size. I thought about going full High Key on this one, but I think the shadow adds a dramatic flair - it is a "Caper", after all! The fun part is that there are features on a caper that no one can readily see with the naked eye.This little guy was about 1/4", so I am confident that the negative space is under an inch as well.

5 euro cent coin, which shows an altar from Malta's prehistoric temples. I've uploaded to my photostream a picture of the real thing, which is much more than an inch.

Dessicated Hydrangea flower.

I quickly discovered that this week’s Macro Mondays open ended theme Under an Inch turned out to be a mixed blessing. Great to have all the freedom but what do you do with it?

I’d seen some lovely images of dried Hydrangea flowers on Flickr so I decided to have a look at the two Hydrangeas in my garden. Sure enough there were a lot of dried flowers still on them - they were a lot smaller than I imagined. This is one backlit on an LED lightbox.

The main problem was creating a reasonably strong composition in less than an inch. I tried all sorts of arrangements and combinations and ended up deciding to keep it simple. I liked the veins branching out from the centre so kept to that.

I found keeping the centre in the centre worked best, and I rotated the image slightly so the main vein coming from the left was horizontal to give a strong lead in… well that’s the theory :)

The main practical problem was to get the dried brittle flowers flat for focussing. Impossible. So I stacked nine images focussed at different points.

I’m still trying to get the hang of focus stacking. It’s pretty easy to do but I’m not sure whether the aperture was too small here to be really effective. Also the focus for this one is not helped by most of the light being transmitted through the the leaf rather than reflected from the surface.

The image is around three quarters of an inch across the horizontal.

I’ve not been to New York’s Grand Central Station but imagination is sometimes better than reality. To my mind it evokes the idea of a vast rail network all coming together at one point. Seemed a suitable title :)

Thank you for taking time to look. Hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Mondays :)

I’m looking forward to seeing where everyone else’s imaginations have taken them for this theme!

[LED lightbox; tripod; remote release; manual focus; VR off.

This is a focus stack of 9 RAW images processed in Affinity Photo to cope with the warped petals.

Wide crop, with slight rotation. Sharpened using Unsharp Mask, Clarity filter and High Pass filter with Linear blend. Yep, all added something…

Changed hue with HSL adjustment to a more attractive brown. Played with Brightness/Contrast and Shadows/Highlights. Slight dark vignette.]

PRAKTIKA EE3 dial

#MacroMondays #LessThanAnInch

i croped the image a bit to to comply with the rules...

The #MacroMondays #LessThanAnInch challenge

Meet Leo (or about a square inch of him), our six year old bearded dragon. Tame reptiles make good subjects for photography thanks to their tendency to remain stock still for short periods. Unfortunately nobody had told Leo who spoiled a potentially glittering modelling career by continually threatening himself in the reflection in the lens. It's breeding season y'know. To avoid this I used an 80-300mm lens with extension tubes to allow me to stand back a bit, using illumination from within the vivarium only. After about half an hour of (almost) cooperating he delivered a theatrical yawn, so I took the hint.

Leo was rendered monochrome in Photoshop, with colour popping used to restore the original colours around his eye. The reflection of a window in his pupil was blurred to take out the detail of the window frame while retaining the catchlight. As his now mono scales were too much of a contrast with his colourful eye, I took a photo of a fire and added this as an overlay, adjusting opacity to my taste. Leo is a dragon after all.

HMM all.

"Less than an inch" each way for Macro Monday February 26, 2018.

It took several tries, but I'm really happy with how this turned out. This shot gives a view of how the stitching fastens the folios together, providing a further take on last weeks theme "fastener".

I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina and it´s Summer time here. I´m ending 2018 doing what I love: Nature macro photography. This photo was taken handheld, no flash. No cropping. This Insect is a Coleoptera (Naupactus xanthographus).

If you look "closer", you will see another bug. :)

ISO 1600, f/8, 1/100

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I wish you all a HMM and a Happy New Year !