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A few simple ingredients at play here, all held together by a new accessory from Platypod – flexible gooseneck arms attached to their Platypod Max as a “base of operations” that performs exceptionally well for tabletop macro work! Pre-order them here: platypod.com/tripods/gooseneck - see them in use in my behind-the-scenes image, which showcases how versatile such a configuration is: donkom.ca/bts/IMG_20190929_145303.jpg
Attached to the goosenecks, you can use just about anything to clip things together. Commercially available “crab clamps” can be obtained for a few dollars, but you can even just drill a thread into a clothespin which has a nice soft clamp for wildflower seeds like this Goat’s Beard (Salsify) seed head. I’ve loved these seeds because of their spider-web like appearance, and harvest a bunch of them from my city’s waterfront walking paths during the summer months. They’ll last me until they go to seed again the next year!
This image is novel for a number of reasons, beyond the cool gadgets I get to play with to make these setups easier and more robust. Another point of simplicity is that this image is not taken with a macro lens, nor was it focus stacked! This is the magic of the high-resolution mode in the Lumix S1R. Of course this isn’t the only camera with such a feature, but it’s proving to be quite the advantage to get better depth of field in macro work without sacrificing resolution! How does this work?
The closer you get to your subject, the shallower your depth of field will become. Traditionally, to get an image of water droplets with visible refractions, you would have needed to be shooting at 1:1 macro magnification or beyond – putting extension tubes on a macro lens. What if you could intentionally shoot from farther away, and drastically crop in? This would work, but you’d be left with a very low-res image as a result. Advancements in technology allow you to overcome this.
Imagine shooting a 187MP image, which is possible with the Lumix S1R, and then intentionally throwing 90% of it away by excessively cropping. You’ll still have just under 19MP worth of image data to work with, and I had previously been shooting with 18-20MP cameras for my entire professional career. This image is shot with the 24-105 F/4 kit lens, which while it focuses closer than my old Canon 24-105L lens, doesn’t need to be a macro lens.
Because the high-resolution mode (also available on the MFT Lumix G9 and full-frame Lumix S1, as well as many other cameras) requires continuous light and a stable camera, this was shot with an ultra-bright LED flashlight and the camera was on a tripod. My current favourite LED light is the NiteCore SRT7GT, which also includes red, blue and green LED for light painting: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336259-REG/nitecore_srt7g...
Want to know how this magic is done? Grab a copy of my upcoming book for a comprehensive tutorial!: www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/macro-photography/
Ingredients here: Grape vine tendril, daisy-like flower, water droplets and a weevil!
This vine tendril was wrapped around the wire of a tomato cage, and it got me thinking: what if I can get a droplet to fill in the center of the spiral and refract? In combination with droplets on the outside, all carefully placed with a hypodermic needle, this curved magical wand began to take form. I knew I needed an actor for this shot, and I had spotted some Green Immigrant Leaf Weevils in our front gardens recently (and had used for other images too). Not hard to track one of these down, and into the studio we go.
This is lit with a NiteCore SRT7 LED flashlight (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336259-REG/nitecore_srt7g... ) which is bright enough for very fast shutter speeds at close range, but it was also needed for the “secret weapon” of this image: The Lumix S1R “high resolution” mode which requires continuous lights. This is a heavy crop from a 187MP image taken with the Lumix S 24-105mm F/4 kit lens. No close-up filters, no extension tubes, and we’re firmly into the macro universe. It’s a focus stack of five images taken as quickly as possible – there is a few second delay between images as the camera builds the high resolution image from 8 shots taken in rapid succession. Really liking that feature on the S1R (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1455068-REG/panasonic_dc_s... ), but wait a minute… how did the weevil stay still?!
It’s fairly hot and dry today (30C / 86F), so I shouldn’t be surprised when I lead this weevil up the grape vine. When it encountered water, it stopped for a drink! I saw that it wasn’t moving, but the snout was stuck into a droplet… so time to act fast. If he (or she?) is sitting still, maybe I could balance another droplet on its head? Oh what the heck, why not try! Also, with little movement between frames this is when I had the idea to utilize the high-res mode on the S1R. When focus stacking the shot, there was some movement from the weevil – mostly the antennae – that required some manual corrections.
The flower in the background is a hardy osteospermum, my best guess is “Purple Mountain” Sun Daisy. These flowers are tricky, because their colour is so vibrantly intense that a camera might often record it a little off. I had the opportunity to test out the new xrite ColorChecker Classic Nano for this shot (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1486402-REG/x_rite_msccext... ) which is a camera calibration chart of Lilliputian dimensions. Worked like a charm, so no more need to fiddle with a million sliders to try and get the right colour – such a tool would be a huge timesaver for my macro product photography work.
Want more of these images, and more of this knowledge? Grab a copy of my upcoming 352pg hardcover book titled Macro Photgraphy: The Universe at Our Feet - www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/macro-photography/
I noticed a fiery red and orange Gerbera Daisy at a local flower store recently, and I had to buy it – I knew exactly what I was going to do. This is a shot that I had pre-visualized a year or two ago but never got around to making. This is a single image taken with the Lumix GX9 and processed exclusively in ON1 Photo RAW. View large and read on!
I almost called this image “Spiral Chandelier”, but since this is an image of water droplets on a grape vine, “Corkscrew” sounded more fitting. Most vines send out little arms (tendrils) that wrap around other plants and trellises as a means for support. They often have a spiral-like appearance, so it wasn’t hard to find the right one for this concept. Five minutes later I was in studio setting this up.
Tendrils usually don’t take as kindly to spraying from a mist bottle as wildflower seeds do for this type of refraction photography. The droplets are better placed individually; the best way I’ve discovered to do that is through a hypodermic needle (thanks Kirk!). With a needle, I can carefully place a droplet exactly where I want it at the size I want it to be. I can also change the size by adding or removing water – a very powerful tool! In order to “build” the shot accurately, the camera was on a tripod and it was illuminated with a very bright LED flashlight.
Normally, I do all of my water droplet refraction images handheld and with flash, because finding the right subject angle often involves moving the camera around the subject itself as a point of rotation, rather than the point of rotation being the tripod mount. Getting the alignment of visual ingredients here was tricky and took about 5-10 minutes. If droplets were already in place waiting to be photographed, many of them would have evaporated in that time.
With continuous light, it was easy for me to see on the back of the screen how the droplets were cooperating. Not spherical enough or at the wrong angle, and you don’t get a great image appearing within it. One droplet, the large one on the left side, just wouldn’t sit in a good spot for a completely clear refraction. Adding water to it with the needle allowed for more of a refraction to appear below the distorted area, and added a fun bit of variety to the image I think.
This is a single shot from the Lumix GX9, cropped square for composition. Using just the Leica 45mm macro lens, I’m able to get about 2:1 magnification when compared to 1:1 on my full-frame camera, easily pushing me into the realm of water droplet refraction imagery without excessive cropping. ISO 200, 1/250sec, F/6.3. You don’t want to shoot with an aperture too small, otherwise the flower in the background comes into sharper focus and is distracting.
The very bottom droplet had a refraction that was much softer than the others, and I was surprised how well locally-applied “structure” in ON1 Photo RAW performed to make it look as detailed as the other droplets. The front of the tendril was darkened slightly at the bottom-front to match the in-camera darkness at the top-front, all very easy to do. No heavy editing on this image, but the subtle enhancements make a big differences. For the month of June, I’m the ON1 guest coach and we’re off to a great start! Learn more about ON1 Plus here: www.on1.com/products/plus/ - Plus members get early access to the latest software which is coming very soon. :)
There was one other important thing I did in-camera though: I modified the light with my finger. Placing my index finger between the flashlight and the tendril, I could shape the light slightly, making the tendril more in shadow and allowing the droplets to stand out more strongly. I let a little bit of light come through, hitting the backside of the spiral for added depth without ruining the contrast. It’s all in the wrist! Here’s a behind-the-scenes view that shows what it would look like without my finger in the way: donkom.ca/bts/IMG_3799.JPG
Want to learn to make images like this? I teach workshops on exactly this subject! You can take them in my home studio here in Barrie, ON (three spots left for the August 10th date, that’s it!): www.donkom.ca/product/macro-photography-workshops/
I’ll also have a water droplet component at the NECCC July 13-15, but that’s filled up. Still, I’ll try and have some shooting stations available here: www.neccc.org/p/2018-conference.html
I believe there are still a few spots for my water droplet refraction workshops in Princeton NJ in September, as well as infrared and flower photography: princetondigitalphotoworkshop.com/macro/
Finally, October brings up the Mike Moats Macro Photography Conference where I’ll have shooting stations available as well! Anyone near Cleveland OH should absolutely consider attending!: www.tinylandscapes.com/blog/macro-photo-conference-2018
Also, I KNOW someone is going to ask: what flashlight do you recommend? White I used the NiteCore TM26 for this shot, it was definitely overkill. My current favourite flashlight is the NiteCore SRT7GT: www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1336259-REG/nitecore_srt7g... - it is incredibly bright at close range, and also has a red, green, or blue LED mode for light painting or night vision preservation. It also has a UV LED built in, and you know the crazy stuff I’ve been doing with UV lately. :)
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On one of the final missions of the DC3 project, 3 radar trucks and one scout van sit in a strip mall parking lot in El Reno, OK waiting for thunderstorms to develop. The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Project, known as DC3, was a 2 month long project in 2012 that studied thunderstorms and how their dynamic, physical, and lightning processes affected the upper troposphere.
Fin is a small wearable of its kind, a trendy gadget that you can wear on your thumb, which helps you to control your entire digital world. Fin is not just a technology, rather it’s an innovation that helps u get all you need right in your palm. It provides 100% screen visibility without any hi...
i found out i lost my lens cap and kept finding it... suddenly Smartr show me his 50D with a Nikon cap!! WTX XD
Anyway is a fun idea too :P love it!
Is this fit the Theme - mess in rules? XD
A Canon 50D with Tamron SP90 and with a Nikon lens cap !!!
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LENS: 50 1.8D
LOC: a Cafe in the Time Square LG floor
Microsoft has patented a new smart ring designed to aid natural user interface (NUI) control for use with both conventional and new computing experiences such as tablets or Hololens-type devices.
The ring would include both conventional sensors such as gyroscopes, and also a new infra-red sensor...
www.ms-hololens.com/microsoft-patents-smart-ring-accessor...
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