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Macro Monday theme - My Closest. Two tiny hearts measure 2 inches side by side at the widest point. A very rainy and cold day here, so pulled out my macro lens to attempt the macro theme. Ruler is called a scale.
Happy Macro Monday!
My inclination is to choose this one for the Macro Monday posting for the theme of “my closest” for 1/17. Yep, *sprinkles* on chocolate icing!! Very very very close-in because I used a clip-on lens for my phone’s camera. The tick marks behind the sprinkles are *millimeters*, so the one on the far right is 2mm….
There are 8 possibilities of subjects that I’ll post and then I’ll probably dither. My faves for the theme are ** starred:
**the texture of a ribbon
a rawhide knot
a coin,
a candle,
a ceramic cat
a colorful bow,
**these sprinkles
and
a mystery object
….💙🔍HMM💙
White poppy seeds in a poppy seed head I collected in 2020. These poppy seeds are de-corticated a d like black poppy seeds are interregnal ingredients in Indianian cooking.
#macromondays
#Redux
#Vintage
#LowKey
#MyClosest
Inspiration came late for 2022's Redux theme, and it came with another watch – one that you've already seen for the "Curvy Lines" theme (please check the first comment).
The main theme I've redone here is "Vintage", and the capture also seems to be a mixture of "High Key" and "Low Key", so one might call this a "Mid Key" photo ;) There also is a touch of "My Closest" in this image, because although the frame itself isn't that tiny (the scene's height is roughly 1,5 cm/0,59 inches), I was very close to the watch itself, because the UV filter I use as protection for my 30mm macro lens was touching the lower left corner of the watch's glass. The watch itself isn't vintage in the sense of "old", it's a new model, but it's from Casio's "Vintage" collection, and the design itself is vintage, too, an original 1970s digital wristwatch design. By the way, my Dad's wristwatch which I had photographed for the original "Vintage" theme and which miraculously had started working again during that photoshoot is still running :)
Technically, this is a single photo illuminated by a single soft photo light from above. This time, I also didn't use any of my colour filters. The iridescent rainbow colours which I find so very irresistible come from the "ion plating" that has been applied to the stainless steel. I also decided to leave most of the tiny dust grains (and of course, I had polished the watch beforehand) in the image, because once again they reminded me of stars. So maybe we should begin to call the inevitable macro photo dust: stardust :) And please forgive the stupid title, I couldn't think of anything better ;)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, see you all for the first Macro Monday in (and the first day of) 2023 next week :) A special greeting goes to the MM members from the United States and Canada: I hope that all of you managed to stay safe and warm during the terrible blizzard. Keep safe, and take good care!
These are Proxabrush refills stuck into a styrofoam base. It reminded me of an aerial view of a forest in winter.
Done for Macro Mondays: "My Closest" theme
"The challenge will be to get as close as you possibly can and to include a visible indication of size by placing your subject on/by a ruler, grid or graph paper," according to the theme description.
Photographed with a Tokina 100mm f2.8 macro lens with 12mm Kenko extension tube
HMM
How is the post-Christmas food & alcohol coma recovering going? Late Boxing Day here & thinking I'll start recovering next year ;) I know lots of our northern hemisphere friends are in freezing cold conditions at the moment. We've had 30C+ days (nearly 100f), cocktails by the pool, sunburn. So, this pic isn't ice, it's a couple of grains of salt, pink Himalayan salt that goes in the salt grinder. For the Macro Monday "redux" theme, in this case "condiments" & "closest". Used a 1:1 60mm macro lens with a 2.5X Raynox lens on front. Combined with the M4/3 doubling factor means a 5x magnification. But you can take that with a grain of salt :)
Happy recovering everyone!
I have no reason to steal this title except that I like the sound of it and there is a measuring device in our images today.
This is a paper ruler (I used it because it was orange) with an orange paper in the back and a yellow glass heart which came glued to a miniature wooden peg. I applied a texture to make it more interesting. I think the heart was scratched anyway, I erased the texture from it but it never sparkled.
HMM!
I struggled with this one. I tried focus stacking, however, that turned out rather ugly. After sorting through all the layers, erasing and clone stamping this is about as good as it's going to get. The setup is here. HMM! Thanks to anyone stopping here to look, maybe like, possibly comment.
I found (touring the house for an interesting teenywheeny MM object last weekend) this necklace with the tiny green cut glass gem (less than 1/2 cm in diameter) on a miniature teddy bear that my daughter found in the street when she was small. The green twinkle of the glass and the Bokeh from the little silver chain was what I liked best among the usual series of shots for MM.
HMM to all participants 💚💚💚
My grand daughter gave this to me when she was 4 years old for my birthday. She is turning 21 in May and I can't believe how time has flown.
Macro Mondays
My Closest
This is one of two filaments in the cornering light bulb of our Honda Trike. It accidentally got dropped and broken and now sits on the workshop window sill. The measuring tape in the background as required for #MacroMondays is in increments of 1 millimeter
Eine Glaskugel auf Millimeterpapier
Die Glaskugel hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 18 mm. Es ist der kleinste Abstand, den meine Kamera ohne Hilfsmittel zuläßt.
Meine Variante zu Macro Mondays:
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#myclosest
Well, this is not really my closest image, even though I've used the extension tubes here; but I wanted a little bit of negative space around the measuring device and the item that is paired with it, so I decided to go for a roughly 2 cm / 0,7 inches image frame.
The main subject is a broken ear stud which I've used for Macro Mondays before (please see the first comment). When the stud broke off the golf ball shaped glass bead, a shiny mirror surface (0,4 cm / 0,15 inches in diameter) was revealed (and said mirror surface also is the reason why these earrings keep breaking apart – the surface where bead and stud are glued together is too sleek), and I thought it might look interesting, if I placed the bead so that the shiny "breaking point" would reflect a part of the cm scale.
The measuring device I've used is a hexagonally shaped "Construction" ballpen that has an inch scale and several cm scales printed on its surface, and is also equipped with a level, a touch screen stylus (on the back cap) and a Phillips and a regular screwdriver (inside the back cap), very convenient. I've used modeling clay to prevent the glass bead from rolling off the ballpen and to keep it stay put at the right angle for a nice and sharp reflection.
The final result is a rather simplistic, manual two image focus stacking. The in-camera focus stacking function couldn't handle the image's depth of field all too well this time, so I simply took two photos, one of the 1:1 cm scale's reflection, and one with the glass bead (slightly more) in focus. I did some sharpening and denoising in DXO before I combined the images in Photoshop. Extra processing was done in Analog Efex (Classic Camera 5 with vignette and basic adjustments) and Color Efex (filters used were: "Brilliance and Warmth", "Lighten Center" and "Skylight").
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
“Macro Mondays” ,
“My Closest” ,
Bead Head Nymph,
Size 22,
Macro,
United States,
Pennsylvania,
Winter.
ODC-A Rainbow Connection
Macro Mondays-My Closest
This lovely prism hangs on the bottom of my crystal wind chime.
One of my attempts at the "Macro Mondays" theme "My Closest"
This is a salt crystal on a mm scale! So you're looking at a magnification of around 6:1.
Shot with a Carl Zeiss "Luminar 16 mm F 2.5" lens on a Canon EOS R5.
(L 25 mm - Kopf/Ohren B 8 mm)
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Thema "My Closest" am 17.01.2022.
Have a "Happy Macro Monday"
and a good start into the new week.
Stay safe/Bleibt gesund! 🌸
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"Macro Mondays" Thema: "My Closest"
Focus-Stacking ohne Makro-Objektiv und nur einem einfachen Stativ...
die kleine Nadel so zu positionieren das sie im Magnetfeld aufrecht steht ist zwar ein Geduldspiel, aber knifflige Aufgaben zu lösen war schon in meiner Kindheit und im Berufsleben mein Ding...
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A trip around the DxO Photolab 4 ColorWheel for this image as I found centipede brown a bit boring. This centipede is my choice for Macro Monday's " My Closest " theme. A 20 image stack using Helicon Focus. HMM
Ah la la…j’ai pensé que la taille de la pâquerette était une indication de la taille du coquillage….