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Happy Perfect Purple Saturday!
This is from last year's spring and straight out of the camera except for a crop ... I need to find signs of spring 2009 now .... where shall I look ....?
Celle-ci était prise en printemps 2008 et est ici sans manipulation (sauf cadrage).
Je voudrais trouver des signes du printemps 2009 ... je cherche où ....?
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Update at 1800 CET .... I found Spring 2009 - just outside chez moi ;-).... it's here...
Take a look here too!
I grew potatoes last year. I don't eat many, though, and most of them have sat in a colander through the autumn and winter. In the last few weeks, they started to grow, sending up shoots nearly a foot tall. I intend to plant them, but I noticed they became infested with aphids. I don't know where they came from, but I assume they will die off when buried. Before I do that though, I figured they'd make excellent macro subjects, at a time of year when few other insects are about.
Although the head is out of focus, I love how the flash has caught the iridescence of this insect's wing. It's a good start for my new lens. 7x magnification - this frame is just over 5mm across.
Many years later, I have been told this is the peach-potato aphid!
Canon EOS 5D mark III, Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x, Canon EF Extender 1.4x III, Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT (tripod, Live View, homemade flash tube/reflector).
91mm, f/8, 1/80, ISO 800, flash at full strength (exif incorrect).
Click here to view larger size photo on black
Nikon D7000 with Lens Leica 80-200mm f/4 R mounted with Leitax adapter. Taken hand-held with ISO 800 f/5.6, 1/250s. In order to reduce the minimum focusing distance, I added a Nikon 62mm close-up lens No 5T on a step-up adapter ring 60/62 (the Leica lens has a 60mm filter thread).
It has been a while since I took one of my Leica lenses out for a walk in the forest. I remembered an excellent macro shot of a bee I took with the same set-up. I wanted to test it again and see how crispy the details look under a 100% magnification (actual pixel) of my newly acquired 16 Megapixel camera Nikon D7000.
Under photoshop I enlarged two zones of this picture of a dead tree trunk and the results are amazingly crisp. The DX format of the camera uses only the center of the lens optics therefore making the image very sharp even in the corners/borders. The Leica 80-200mm was already very sharp on FX format starting at aperture f/5.6 and above (vignetting and little soft at f/4). This lens on DX format is sharper at f/4 and eliminates vignetting.
I was thinking of selling it for lack of use due to its manual focus constraint but I think that I should use it more often for these Macro situations where only Manual Focus works anyway. The focus distance of this set-up is about 30cm which is convenient for insects photography.
✰ This photo was featured on The Epic Global Showcase here: bit.ly/23URrdn
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Heart of a tulip.
First flower macro with a digicam.
Tuesday afternoon, at supermarket.
Normal 18-70mm lens, built-in flash.
Macro lens & external flash are on the "wish list" for now.
Looking through old images I came across this one from Durham NC, 7 September 2004.
Yellow-fringed Dolichomia - Hypsopygia olinalis (wingspan ~25 mm)
This was found at a household light. Photo taken with my first digital camera, a Nikon Coolpix 4500. That camera had excellent macro capabilities, and the autofocus was quite reliable even at the closest ranges. (I recently bought a replacement battery and take the occasional image with it.) Some schmutz on the background was cloned out for aesthetic reasons.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
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Taken using my compact camera. SONY Super Steadyshot DSC T20. This tiny camera has excellent macro facility. It is as good as any SLR camera.
Cactus de Navidad y Pascua
Desde hace años, muchas variedades de cactus han sido adaptadas para el ámbito del hogar, dado su enorme valor ornamental, y hoy figuran en la mayoría de los viveros y establecimientos de cultivos especializados. En esa situación se encuentran la Schlumbergera y el Rhipsalidopsis, especies que disfrutan de una floración denominada comúnmente cactus de Navidad.
Cómo mantener sus flores
Son especies bastante agradecidas que necesitan pocos cuidados. De hecho, unos mínimos detalles serán suficientes para que sus flores estén esplendorosas durante todas las Fiestas.
Precisamente en estas fechas es cuando se debe controlar el crecimiento de ambos ejemplares. Para ello tienes que recortar algunos brotes, que, a su vez, podrás utilizar para multiplicarlos. Los cactus de Navidad y Pascua enraízan fácilmente a partir de dos o tres esquejes de yemas debajo de un vidrio.
La forma que tienen es conocida como Foliosa. Cuentan con unos tallos muy singulares, planos (bien alargados, o bien redondeados), que se asemejan a hojas. Se dan únicamente en los géneros de hábitos epífitos, ya que no tienen la necesidad de almacenar agua. Necesitan humedad y sitios sombríos; si crecieran en lugares silvestres, lo harían en los recovecos de árboles y rocas.
Christmas and Easter Cactus
For years, many varieties of cacti are adapted to the household level, given its huge ornamental value, and now found in most nurseries and facilities for specialty crops. That is the status and Rhipsalidopsis Schlumbergera species enjoyed a bloom commonly known as Christmas cactus.
How to keep your flowers
Species are quite grateful that need little care. In fact, a minimum details will be sufficient for their flowers are splendid throughout the holidays.
Precisely at this time is when you should control the growth of both copies. To do this you have to cut some outbreaks, which, in turn, you can use to multiply. The Christmas and Easter cactus easily rooted from cuttings two or three buds under glass.
The way they have is known as foliosa. They have some very unique stems, flat (either elongated or rounded), which resemble leaves. Are unique to the genera of epiphytic habits because they do not have the need to store water. They need moisture and shady places, if growing in wild places, they would in the crevices of trees and rocks.
I've so many "flickr" friends that post excellent macros, I view macros as simply bird food however I thought I'd attempt a few.
Philips Medium Format Enlarger PCS 150.
Another route is to use Vuescan. This scanner program allows you to choose as source an image file instead of a scanner, very handy !
I used the same source (image 04 in this set), selected the crop area and clicked the button "scan".
The resulting image looks better, there is definetly more life in it.
Still a red shift but that would be easily corrected in a next shot of the negative.
Please don't look too much at the sharpness. I know that it is horrible !
Main goal was to see how the colors behaved.
My set-up was very amateuristic. Just remove the Enlarger lens, put the Nikon D40 on the easel and point it upwards. Autofocus was used, ISO set at 200 and Colorbalance at Tungsten (3000K).
A much better performance would be reached with one of the latest DSLR's with its super megapixels sensor and, very important, an excellent macro-lens.
A few weeks ago bought an adapter for my EOS that would allow me to mount my old Canon FD lenses. This would allow these lenses to perform as excellent macro lenses. These are my first few experiments using the Canon 100mm f/4. The FD 100/4 was also a macro lens when used with the A1, and it's still sharp as a tack!
A few weeks ago bought an adapter for my EOS that would allow me to mount my old Canon FD lenses. This would allow these lenses to perform as excellent macro lenses. These are my first few experiments using the Canon 100mm f/4. The FD 100/4 was also a macro lens when used with the A1, and it's still sharp as a tack!
Copyright © 2009 - All rights reserved - "After the rain"...a fabulous purple iris in a small apartment garden proudly displaying its beauty after a springtime Ukrainian rainstorm ...sometimes photo art requires being at the right place at the right time to make the right capture. I just happened to find this one while walking along the sidewalk. Kyiv, Ukraine Copyright 2009 All rights are reserved.
*15-07-09 Chosen as the "Moderators and Administrator's Photo of the Week" on the prestigious and highly popular "Hidden Treasures" and has received two Administrator's Special Awards from "4M´s Photographic Dream" photography group on Flickr."
**18-10-10 Recipient of 3 "Moderator's Special Awards" in The Wonderful World of "1001 Nights" but unfortunately too many awards to qualify for entry into the "Magic City" award (40 Max).
Test shot using Soligor 70-220mm 1:3.5 MC lens. Handheld wide-open at 220mm and 1/20s exposure, ISO 800. This lens is basically a re-branded Tokina lens. I got it with extensive haze on variator group and a lot of gunk accumulated on other elements. Cleaned very well with ROR - must be the lubricant vapor condensing.
The lens is unusual - it is twice as big and heavy as other lens in similar range. The bloody thing is almost as big as 300mm 6x7 S-M-C Takumar. In this case size appear to matter as the lens is amazingly sharp for an old zoom, plus produces excellent macros at 1:1.5 rate. Apparently there is a later model of this lens slightly lighter - Soligor 70-222mm. In any case this appears to be a great find and a good candidate for a favorite lens. Got it off Ebay for USD $23.81