my thoughts on the laowa 65mm:

www.aarondesigns.org/Laowa-65mm-f28-2x-2to1-SuperMacroLens/

shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a venus optics laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x macro lens

PCB

Made in Blender 2.93, using geometry nodes and rendered in Cycles.

The render is a bit over-exposed, but I'm not going for perfection.

Proof

While riding my bike I ran into this

Fucking Cliff Hanger Shit

PCB & components.

Did not make my 365 but still posted.

Early Friday morning (~6:30am) at the Panama City Beach pier across from Pier Park. I had a polarizing filter and ND gradient filter and set the shutter to 10-30 seconds. (You can see that in the EXIF data.) The waves were not too high, which sometimes helps, but it was very choppy and you don't see them in this shot at all. The sun had just began to appear behind me, so you can see that on the pylon in the foreground.

I didn't do any processing in Photoshop, just a little exposure (it was overexposed) overall and added some contrast.

from a Gene Cafe coffee roaster

Trying to get a city like landscape with electronic components. I tried a very low angle and back lighting with the speed light. I was going to try stacking, but couldn't get the angle except hand held. I think the narrow depth of field might help the illusion anyway?

PCB is an old AMD Radeon 7700. Happy Macro Monday

On the beach on the Florida Panhandle

This is a closeup of my old harddrive showing its components and PCB.

PCB (Printed Circuit Board) Roygbiv, permanent marker on paper, 15 x 22 1/2 inches, hbt10-p001, 2010

Originals - Reproductions

We had a new alarm fitted at work today and the chap who was doing it left the old board near my desk. It was destined for the bin so I had to crack it open and rescue it. I think I have a problem :)

Once home I shone my torch behind it and couldn't wait for it to go dark as there were some beautiful designs hidden within.

Pentax on the macro extension tubes, back lit focusing on the middle of the board then a quick sweep in red from above.

I was going to double it with another element but I shall save that for another time.

Strobist - two off camera flashes and some foamboard

setup shot : flickr.com/photos/placbo/2450379344/

British weather is raining cats and dogs outside again which means I end up shooting at the kitchen table. Lens and tripod swap faffery shot in one photographic exposure

Taken for Saturday Self Challenge': "Connections".

At a rough estimate there are around 8000 connections visible here, this is a double sided circuit board so the other side is similarly populated with components, and it's a ten layer board so there are another eight layers of connections between the two visible outer layers . . .

#420

Taken for 'Saturday Self Challenge': "Deep DoF"

The challenge gave me an excuse to try something I've not done before, which was focus stacking. The image is a composite of four separate images each focussed at different points on the PCB, then selectively merged keeping the in-focus sections of each image [by manually erasing the unfocussed parts of each layer]

#41

TV PCB junk at recycling centre.

Panama City Beach in February

City pier at Panama City Beach

Dcim\100gopro\Gopr6496.

Blackburn Corporation Transport 25 PCB 25, a Leyland Titan PD2A/24 built 1962 with an East Lancashire H35/28R body runs past Blackburn railway station

Note, PCB 25 was delivered to Blackburn on 3rd October 1962 and entered service on 1st November 1962

Ref no Bus00887

Plymouth 20/05/2022

Plymouth Milehouse 05/07/2023

Ex GoAhead London E76