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For Macro Mondays, My Closest. A Lincoln penny with the 60 macro and two extension tubes. Each ruler mark is 1/64th of an inch.
A 6mm shell from Barricane Beach in North Devon, photographes with 100mm macro lens (APSC with crop factor x1.6), using three extension tubes giving total extension of 68mm.
Magnification now 1.68:1.
Photographed against a metric tape measure.
Macro Mondays Theme: My Closest
I was looking for something small to photograph this week and found this tiny Oncidium that had fell from the plant. Even thought it died I find that it is still beautiful.
A Macro Mondays submission on "My closest", i.e. the biggest magnification I can achieve. This is a tiny crab spider, which I persuaded to climb over a ruler, with millimetre marks. Taken with a Canon M50, Tamron zoom lens at 300mm with a Raynox DCR250 macro adaptor.
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's tempting to treat every problem as if it is a nail."
The law of the instrument, (law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer, or golden hammer) is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. As Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."
Japanese Porcelain Neko (Cat) Lucky Charm
Macro Mondays theme: My Close
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A ring which I found in the sand at the water's edge in Cornwall a few years ago, which explains the rather dull appearance of the stones and the scratches on the metalwork!
The wooden ruler is one from my schooldays and the divisions are millimetres.
A transparent plastic Ruler/Scale held just above the Periwinkle flower. The sunlight passing through the ruler/scale creating shadows of the centimeter markings on the petals.
"Macro Mondays" Thema: "My Closest"
Focus-Stacking ohne Makro-Objektiv und nur einem einfachen Stativ...
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This week's very technical topic prompted me to check not only the closest point, but also the maximum resolution of my photographic equipment: the choice of subject.
A small dove feather (cm 2) on a sheet of graph paper, a result that I think is excellent.I would like to know your observations and comments, thanks a greeting to all of you
The Macro Mondays theme for this week is "My Closest" ie shoot the absolute highest magnification macro available and include a visible indication of size by placing your subject on/by a ruler, grid or graph paper.
Macro Mondays: My closest
Clothing snap on transparent plastic ruler. I have only a basic macro lens, so I used that (on manual, 1:1), plus a +10 close-up filter. In the spirit of the challenge, I didn't crop anything. Frame is about 2.5 cm / 1" across.
Circuit board from my broken Tamaron AF 17-50mm. Photo taken with Canon 100mm lens with 2X Hoya magnifying filter and mounted on Canon 60D.
Last week my Flickr friend simple.joy posted an extreme close-up of the edge of a Euro coin in preparation for Macro Monday’s My Closest theme today.
For some inexplicable reason, the image stirred up my competitive instincts. That came as a considerable surprise - I had assumed they were long dead, or at least in a terminal coma.
A master plan formed to outdo this upstart pretender of continental coinage with the dignity of the ancient currency of our noble realm (I would say empire, but even I have to admit I’m a little late for that). Reverse my 105mm macro onto stacked extension tubes perched on the end of bellows and use the mirrorless full-frame sensor as the target; mount the whole lot on a focus rail and stack 20 or 30 of the resulting images. Pretty straightforward then, and should trounce the cheeky contender as easy as…
A brief review, however, of the plan highlighted three significant technical difficulties:
1) I didn’t have a reversing ring.
2) I didn’t have any bellows.
3) I couldn’t be bothered...
Undaunted, I sallied forth with a different approach…
This was taken on my phone by holding a hand magnifying lens in front of the camera port (once I’d worked out which one that was!). Lighting was a mix of an LED torch and a desk lamp. It’s four images stacked in Affinity. Handheld.
That last word was the difficulty. Ideally to work this rig I needed four hands and a prehensile tail. I only had two. (Hands! {sigh - you just can’t get the readers these days}).
And it did need a bit of processing. The raw (dng) images from the phone were first cleaned up in Topaz DeNoise AI, then stacked as raws in Affinity and output as a tif. This was sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI, then the result was expanded by a factor of two in Topaz Gigapixel AI to give us more pixels to play with. This was then cropped and tarted up back in Affinity. It's still almost 4,000 pixels wide even at this crop, so doing well.
I’m quite impressed really by what proved achievable. Phone cameras are remarkable and they are close-focusing for macro work. The newer pound coins no longer have engraved words around the edge, so I just took the top-down view. Well, really it was the only view I could take! There is some blurred millimetre grid graph paper underneath (you’d need to pay me a lot more to get it in focus).
The pounds have faceted edges like an old threepenny (that is, worth three old pennies) bit. Which was probably worth more than the pound coin is now :) But the image is interesting because it reveals that each facet has a tiny number stamped on it which I had never seen before (2017 here which may be the minting date I guess).
But if you want to see a proper job do have a look at: flic.kr/p/2mX2iAZ
So that pesky continental shrapnel wins the skirmish by a clear margin. But I am undismayed - the battle remains. I have a new plan which involves the same setup but drinking a glass of sherry beforehand. This should act as a kind of VR and IBIS combined and give a much sharper image to work with. Watch this space…
Thank you for taking the time to look (and read if you have got this far). Hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays :)
Very small purple flower measuring 1.5cm almost exactly, it's lined up on the 2cm line to start. Focus Stacked. HMM!
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This is a 5x magnification shot of a small portion of a gold, diamond, and ruby necklace I bought my wife several years ago for Christmas. None of the diamonds are in focus. The ruler lines are 1 millimeter apart. This picture was not cropped at all.
Overall lighting was incandescent-color LED room lighting. The bokeh was achieved with two tiny tabletop LED lights, one positioned from the necklace at 11 o'clock and one at 4 o'clock. When aimed indirectly at the jewelry, reflections flew all over the place, making the bokeh crazy. I had to position the two lights carefully so the bokeh didn't overtake the entire picture. I added a magenta gel in front of the light at the 11 o'clock position and a dark blue gel in front of the light at the 4 o'clock position.
Canon 6D Mark II and Canon MP-E 65mm f2.8 1x-5x macro lens set to 5x. ISO 800, f3.5 at 1 second.