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My brother Imery told me that the lenses in the mid-50mm range make excellent macros if they are turned around. This is my first test - It works amazingly!
Assignment 7 for Macro Photography Photo Workshop: Insect in a Kid's Book.
Assignment description: For this assignment, imagine that a friend of yours has written a children’s book about insects. Knowing that you are an excellent macro photographer, your friend asks you to photograph an insect to go on the front cover of the book. Insects can be scary-looking, but try to make the photo look as child-friendly and approachable as possible.
Photographer comment: This is a photo I took last summer at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. I cropped the original photo to focus on the bee. If you look closer to the bee, you can see pollen sticking all over the bee's body. It could be a good illustration on the pollination process.
Tried to snap a quick pic of this father and son out exploring the gardens. The young man was apparently paying more attention to me than the plants. Love the look.
Sigma SP Adaptall BBAR 90mm f2.5 Manual Focus Macro lens. Excellent macro, general photo and portrait lens.
After seeing some excellent macro lens results from some of my contacts, i thought i would blow the dust off my extension tubes which effectively convert a std lens to a macro lens.
A Pink Dream
I decided that for the 365 today I should step outside the comfort zone and go for a macro........ being a landscape and urban photographer macro is somehting I often stay away from, but I look at some of the excellent macros from some of my contacts and am in awe.
Well I decided the only way to up the macro anti was to dive in and shoot more macro than I do.
The flower my little ones bought my wife for mothers day was so beautiful and delicate it seemed a shame not to preserve an image of it in all it's glory.
Just hope I've done it justice........?
My music theme as I was listening to the Cure on Spotify was a simple choice:
A Pink Dream - The Cure
www.last.fm/music/The+Cure/_/A+Pink+Dream
rio sunrise sucking on a straw
i rub my head and stagger out the door
and head into the bright new beautiful day
and the way she pulls me in
sucks my breath away
i asked her for some time
and she just made me it
i asked her maybe why?
and she just gave me it
never smile
never stare
she doesn't seem to care at all
never cry
never scream
she doesn't really seem to need me at all...
fourteen weeks i stay away from home
a hundred days a part of me unknown
apart in pink and perfect moments play
and as a wonder of the world
she sucks my breath away
i asked her for some time
and she just made me it
i asked her maybe why?
and she just gave me it
so i asked her could be heaven?
and she just prayed me it...
she didn't want to know my name
she didn't want to know how long we had together
spending time as if tomorrow never comes
i didn't want to know the end
i didn't want to go but slowly found me home again
and slow again tomorrow comes
but it was all so far away
and so long ago
i hardly ever think about her anymore
except sometimes when the summer twilight breeze
carries me the scent of faraway rain
i remember...
and she still sucks my breath away
2010PAD-74
15th March 2010
working in the garden today, and this wood frog shows up. This 51 yr old kid was chest down in the dirt working a excellent macro oppertunity. Alaska's only frog species
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
About a 'million miles' away from the excellent macro work of others on here ... but I'm determined to crack it !
Taken in the 'Physic Garden' - Cowbridge - Vale of Glamorgan
I went to the meadow again today, this time taking my old Canon PowerShot S5 IS. The S5 has excellent macro capabilities and an astonishing focal length at its disposal.
Macro of tiny (individual flower - ¼") flowers of Deer Pea Vetch Vicia ludoviciana in my yard. March 2009.
90mm Vivitar Macro Awesome lens, I custom made an adapter to go from Minolta to EOS and it will focus out to 15ft and is killer sharp!!
Non optical adapter, this is an excellent macro lens. Nice way to recycle an old non usable mount lens!
The tips I can give others looking for this type of shot are to just hold down that button and keep the focus rectangle on the target (in continuous mode). You are going to get a lot of in-focus shots, but only a few will have the "pose" that works. Bees love to face away from me when I have the camera, or so I imagine. Just sit still and shoot. I will also follow them around the bush until they get into a good spot. I used a ring-flash on this one but just as easily could have used a speedlight on the ground under the bush and CLS for exposure.
1/200 s at f/5.6, ISO 200, 100 mm.
Photo taken at Reiman Gardens, Ames, IA.
This one is from the, 'Longwing,' family. I believe it is a Numata longwing, but I am still checking on that.
"Heliconious Numata.
Just wanted to say, Hi! to everyone!
I've been gone a great while and am just getting back to posting. I am finishing up a couple of working projects that have taken up most of my summer. One is a green product, where I have been putting together a movie proposal, for work. Another is a soft pastel artwork, which has been sent to a juried competition. I will show it later after competition results are final. And still another is a children's book that I have been working on. Sorry I have not been able to keep up correspondence lately, I've too many projects going at the same time. Wish it weren't so, but a girls got to bring home the bacon! The Lupus issue is resolved, I do have it. Everything is great except my thyroid is a bit off at times. So my doctor is keeping an eye on that. I want to thank you all for your well wishes and support over these last few months. Stop in and say hi when you get the chance. Looking forward to seeing your photo's again! All my best! Daenna : )
I had an excellent macro day in my mum and dad's garden. It is absolutely full of flowers so expect to see a lot more flower shots ha ha x
A decepção é a verdadeira forma de provar como amamos alguém... As pessoas que mais amamos, são as que mais nos decepcionam.
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
Guest shot: my friend Ramya borrowed my camera and took some excellent macro shots around my office at the University of Maryland.
3/18/10
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!
My roomates step sister, Ann, came by to study algebra. He had some conflicting obligations, so I took her downtown and let her use my camera and gave her a couple of tips. She was into photographing a lot of graffitti, did some really excellent macro's (that I'm slightly jelous of!) and also photographed some frogs from a calendar so that it'd look like she took some really good photo's. You can tell that she's 15 b/c she described all of her impressive shots as "tight", lol. Anyway, I promised her I'd upload these, & give her full credit, so here you go. There are shots from Kerry Park, Seattle Central Library, and the Pike Place Market. I cropped and digitally manipulated some of the shots, but for most of these it was her who focused and released the shutter. Enjoy!