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

Thank you for your visit!! :)

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.]

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.

This week I thought I would take a nespresso coffee pod and some coffee granules to show the difference between instant and machine coffee

2:1 approx magnification (area <1/3") with extension tubes + tamron 90/2.5 macro + 49-49 adapter + reversed porst 50/1.7 for very shallow depth of field. gallery with this lens setup

maximacro gallery

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

Thank you for your faves and comments !

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

The accumulating condensation in the airlock of my fermenting home made wine...

Just a few more possibles I shot for this week's MACRO MONDAYS "Less Than An Inch"...

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HMM!!!

Nikon D7100 + Tokina 100mm f/2.8 FX Macro Lens (AT-X M100 AF PRO D AF 100mm f/2.8)

f/6.3 @ 1/200 @ iso 400

(tweaked in Smart Photo Editor)

less than an inch theme for macro mondays group...hmm! :)

A pair of earrings that belonged to my mom.

Yummy!

#MacroMonday #LessThanAnInch .22 Caliber Long Rifle, 5 bullets 1 bird shot

I have uploaded 6 macros for this weeks theme, which photo should I use?

Macro Mondays, #9 2018, Less Than An Inch.

Ladybug measures 3/4"

Macro Mondays ~ Less than an inch

Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne on a 1 Riyal stamp from Umm al Qiwein in the UAE

A persimmon seed, less than an inch (6/8") in length.

Changing of the season

My metal rule in the jaws of my micrometer. 15mm width. My first thoughts of what to enter.

Coqui, gold pendant for Macro Monday theme 'less than an inch' Feb 26/18

Coqui is a small frog native to Puerto Rico, they are named for the loud mating call they make at night.

Macro Monday's Challenge #LessThanAnInch

What an interesting theme this week! The subject of the photo is a glass paperweight. I struggled with how I was going to accomplish this. I have a 100mm lens that can get in close, but not quite that close. I looked up reversing adapters but really couldn't justify buying one given my budget constraints. Then I remembered that I had purchased some extension tubes last year. I haven't really used them much so this was an excellent opportunity to get more familiar with them. I ended up using a 12mm and a 20mm extension tube with the 100mm lens. I still cropped it just a little to get it more centered. HMM everyone!

I have uploaded 6 macros for this weeks theme, which photo should I use?

Zoom in for more details!

Macro Mondays, #9 2018, Less Than An Inch.

This is very old dried slice of blood orange. Now very transparent.

Please leave a comment, IF you feel like it :-)

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Lots of tiny anti-counterfitting details adorn currency including "The United States of America" embedded in Franklin's collar on the $100 bill.

3:1 reproduction ratio (~12mm or < 0.5" side to side).

It was drizzling yesterday and I was looking for ideas for this week’s Macro Mondays theme. I stared out of the window and saw the shining, almost dazzling, raindrops on frangipani leaves and flowers. So, here comes my picture for the theme.

Macro Mondays: Less Than An Inch

Macro Mondays: Less than an inch

"Precision" screw drivers ranging from 3.5mm down to 0.9mm

26.02.2018 #057/365

Happy Macro Mondays

This tiny snowflake is just 1.5mm across.

Macro Mondays - Redux 2018 - Less than an Inch

#MacroMondays

#LessThanAnInch

For todays theme I took this little silver heart I was wearing when I have been very little. My parents wanted to make sure that I don't get lost.

I covered the heart to show a symbiosis of fragile elements. A fragile heart and fragile soft blossom.

#MacroMondays #lessthananinch

My hearing aids are a miracle of miniaturisation.

If the part that goes behind the ear is small, the receiver in the ear is tiny. This subject easily qualifies for the criteria this week which is "less than an inch".

Normally the receiver has a silicone dome fitted with open slots to let natural sounds through. I took it off for the photo.

The white part at the end is called a "Cerustop". Its job is to prevent ear wax from getting inside the receiver. Replacing the Cerustop when it is blocked costs pennies - a lot cheaper than replacing the receiver. .

Tile sample of Fimo fiore cane created by Jon Stuart Anderson. In much the same way that millefiori* glass is created, Jon lays strips of Fimo polymer clay together building a design from the inside out. There is a video on his website demonstrating the process. What starts out the size of a loaf of bread is stretched into something very tiny. This tile is about 3/4 inch on a side and is sliced from one of these bars. My tile came with the turtle sculpture shown in the photo in the first comment. You can see some of the detail in use on the final sculpture. I am currently using my tile as a sculpture in my dollhouse shown in the other photo. HMM

* The term millefiori is a combination of the Italian words "mille" (thousand) and "fiori" (flowers).

Macro Mondays theme: Less Than An Inch

Canon IXUS 265 HS

Photo-Funkauslöser

Macro Mondays 26.2. "Less than an inch" - candidate #3

Diameter (red screw) ~7mm

Focus stack

Glass bead 19mm in diameter. Glass has a slight yellow tint. The rainbow effect is from the glass, as shot. Colours have not been enhanced in any way. No editing apart from cropping

Less than an inch, for MacroMondays, classic cufflink

This week's Macro Monday's theme: "Less than an Inch".

Shot with Canon G9XII in macro mode, and cropped some more.

Happy Macro Mondays!