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#mesh
Sunrise over planet Colander. The extremely holey atmosphere of planet Colander, here as seen from its moon Cullander, and its particular surface structure, cause an extreme scattering of the light particles which results in the optical illusion that not one, but thousands of suns are rising not only from behind, but also through the surface of planet Colander. The phenomenon is also known as "bokeh rising". (Source: Meshypedia)
Not the most original choice for "mesh", I know, but I had photographed mesh fabrics for the previous mesh-related MM themes (please see the first comment, or my album, if you like), so this time it had to be something not so different different. Since I also didn't have much time for the photo (which is not per se a bad thing) it had to be a simple set-up. So I placed the small colander against a piece of cardboard with a shiny gold-coloured coating, held the transparent red chocolate box lid in front of the soft light LED lamp that provided light from above (and I'd placed one warm light LED lamp slightly behind the colander), and took a few photos from different angles. The blue hue, which reminds me of our planet's stratosphere, is the last bit of daylight coming in through my living room window.
Image processed in DXO PL5 (sharpening, DeepPRIME denoising, micro and fine contrast adjustments). Final processing touches done in Analog Efex (Classic camera 7, general adjustments, vignette, and Film "subtle", no grain).
HMM Everyone!
I'll catch up with you tonight!
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#flowers
Interior of an already slightly withered purple Eustoma blossom. In German, this pretty cut-flower is also known as tulip rose, because it looks like a rose on the exterior, but like a tulip on the interior (well, sort of). For further confusion, Eustoma actually belongs to the gentian family, and therefore also goes by the name of prairie gentian, but is also known as Texas bluebell, although bluebells aren't gentians, nor are they roses or tulips, but belong to the Campanula family. Oh, and have I mentioned that the Greek name Eustoma translates as "pleasant mouth"?
The flower is endemic to the warm areas of the southern United States, to Mexico, the Caribbean and Southern America – which must be the reason why the second name this flower is known under in Germany is "Japanrose": Japanese rose. OK, let's settle on Eustoma ;) Especially the purple, lilac and white colour varierties are being cultivated for the cut-flower market.
My photo is a focus stacking made of 15 images (combined in-camera). I've used both extension tubes (10 and 16 mm) to get as close to the yellow pistil as possible. I'm not 100 percent happy with the sharpness, but as usual it was impossible to re-shoot the exact same image, so I decided to stick to what I have. Processed only minimally in DXO PhotoLab (since I already had the in-camera Jpg). In ON1 I've added a subtle vignette and some glow.
HMM, Everyone!
Innenansicht einer schon leicht welken Japanrosenblüte. Die Japanrose ist bei uns auch als Tulpenrose bekannt, weil sie von außen wie ein Rose aussieht, aber von innen eher wie eine Tulpe (aber auch nicht so richtig). Die hübsche Blume, die ihre Heimat in den warmen Regionen des Südens der USA, Mexico, der Karibik und Südamerika, aber nicht in Japan hat, wird insbesondere in der weißen und lilafarbenen Varietät für den Schnittblumenmarkt gezüchtet.
Eigentlich gehört die Eustoma zu den Enziangewächsen, wird im Englischen aber auch als Texas Bluebell bezeichnet, obwohl Bluebells, also Glockenblumen, eben Glockenblumen und keine Enziangewächse sind. Wir haben also eine Tulpe, die keine ist, aber wie ein Rose aussieht und als Glockenblume bezeichnet wird, obwohl sie ein Enziangewächs ist. Noch Fragen? Ach ja, ich vergaß zu erwähnen, dass ihr wissenschaftlicher Name "Eustoma" aus dem Griechischen übersetzt "angenehmer Mund" bedeutet ;)
Habt eine gute Woche und passt gut auf Euch auf!
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#Wrapping
When your synapses get fried by thinking about the Christmas presents... Or about which of quite many photos to pick for "Wrapping". I knew I wanted to photograph paper "bubble" wrap (which does neither consist of bubbles, nor is as soft as bubble wrap, because it's a rather stiff, sturdy piece of "honeycombed" cardboard which had been used in a parcel as protection, and which I've kept for use in a photo project), but I had no idea how to make it look Christmassy.
First, I added a tiny miniature railway H0-sized snowman to the scene to add some cuteness to the image, because shouldn't an image about wrapping materials, especially around Christmas, look nice and pleasing? It should, but it didn't work the way I had imagined the little scene. The snowman images looked boring, so I decided to go for a more abstract approach and photographed the honeycomb cardboard from different angles. The results looked interesting, but anything but pleasing – which brings in the "fried synapses", because in the end I didn't know which image to choose, so it was more of a spontaneous pick: a focus-stacked image of a single cardboard honeycomb taken from the front. At least I wanted to add some Christmassy colours to the image (or let's say: I tried to), so I illuminated the scene with red light from the left (filter: red transparent chocolate box lid) and green light from the right (filter: green bottle).
P.S. I used plastic bubble wrap as background, which you can't see, of course, because it's too blurry. I just thought I'd mention it anyways ;)
Happy Macro Mondays, Everyone, and Happy Wrapping :)
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#Texture
I even massacred one of these big blue IKEA bags in search of an interesting-looking texture, do you believe it? Well, these bags are sturdy, aren't they, and that small hole I clumsily cut into the blue fabric won't impair its carrying abilities. These bags are strong as Hulk, but not as green, and since the fabric's texture didn't look that interesting in close-up either, I continued my search, until this morning I noticed an old green, pretty battered clothes' peg that has long retired as a laundry helper and keeps the potato crisp (a guilty pleasure) bag closed so I won't eat them all at once ;) Not that I'd eat potato crisps for breakfast ;) This peg has plenty of texture, original texture in the form of the protruding rhombic pattern (for better grip), and acquired textures from a lifetime of being squeezed. This makes this little clothes' peg (that might as well be as old as me) a Hulk in its own right – and it's Hulk-green on top of that ;)
What you see is a pretty small part of the peg's grip, a 5x5 mm / 0,19x0,19 inch section. I've illuminated the clothes' peg from behind and photographed it with the cheap little 30 mm macro lens because that gives me more magnification (2.5x) than the regular 1:1 of my 60 mm macro lens. It's also a single image shot in High-res mode (so I would be able to crop out the patterned part and still have a big enough file). Processed in DXO PL6, Color Efex, Analog Efex (Film type Bolton 1), and Lightroom (clarity, contrast, colour adjustments).
I'm busy today and will catch up with you tonight! HMM, Everyone!
... or Honeycombs
#MacroMonday
#Oranje/Orange
Get well soon, Hans, we are looking forward to when you will be back as group admin and also with new photo contributions to the MM group :)
Something I've always wanted to photograph with the extension tubes in order to get really close, but never got it quite right. Well, it's still far from perfect, but at least I managed to get a fairly sharp image of these tiny honeycomb cubes (size of each cube: 2x2 mm / 0,07x0,07 inches) this time. They are inside of a small orange spoke (or rear) reflector, a scratched, battered thing that must have fallen off a bicycle. I picked it up in the street one day, because I thought it might be useful for Macro Mondays one day. I've already used this once before for a theme, the "Lit by Candlelight" theme from December 2017 (you can find the photo in the third comment, I was too slow ;) ). And since Hans is Dutch, and the Netherlands are a bycicle country, I thought the reflector might be an appropriate subject for the Oranje / Orange theme :)
I've used both extension tubes (which gave me 26 mm on top of the 60 mm from my macro lens), the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens and a +4 close-up filter. The result reminds me of an optical illusion, because I can see both the cubes and the honeycombs, but not at the same time. I hope it's not too confusing to look at. I had to do some extensive dust and "scratch bokeh" removal (some of the many scratches on the plastic surface appeared as bokeh spots, but not nice ones, when I focused on the inside of the reflector) with the healing brush to make it pleasant to look at, and only when I applied a slightly matte look in Analog Efex it looked right to me.
I have a very busy day today, so I hope I can catch up with you tonight. HMM, Everyone, stay safe!
#MacroMondays
#Pins
I knew early on what would be my subject for the "Pins" theme: pins on an old motherboard. For my "Modern Times" style image for the MM theme "cogwheel" back in 2018 (please see the second comment) I'd wanted a circuit board as background, but didn't have one at hand. So I went to a very small computer shop around the corner and asked if they had an old, useless circuit board lying around – they had, and I got it for free. To carry it home, however, was a spiky affair. I'd thought that I'd simply put the mainboard under my arm, but I hadn't been aware that there are so many tiny, super spiky-prickly-sharp pins on a mainboard ;) So in the end I held it – in turns – at the sides (gingerly) or at the ports that would have been at the back of the computer chassis. A lasting memory, as it seems ;)
I've photographed the undersides of a row of connector pins that are plugged onto the edge of the mainboard. Each of them is 1 mm / 0,03 inches long. I've used both extension tubes (10mm/16mm) and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens to get as close to the pins as possible. For the yellow/golden light I've used a yellow, semi-translucent cap of a soap bottle that fits so nicely onto the LED lamp's head. I was surprised that the pins looked so soft(-ish), and with the smooth, minimalist bokeh and the background colour (apparently the living room wall, because I hadn't put anything behind the mainboard) the final result reminded me of a corps de ballet or a chorus line. Or of chess pawns, but I prefer the aforementioned idea that these are dancers on an opera stage.
HMM, Everyone! Stay safe and healthy, and have a pleasant week ahead :)
Ich wusste schon frühzeitig (was nicht allzu oft vorkommt), was ich für das aktuelle MM-Thema machen wollte: "Pins" / Steckstifte auf einer alten Hauptplatine. Diese Platine hatte ich mir mal als Hintergrund für mein an "Modern Times" angelehntes Foto für das "Cogwheel"-Thema (September 2018, Ihr findet das Foto im 2. Kommentar) bei einer kleinen Computer-Bude bei mir um die Ecke besorgt. Das Nachhausetragen war dann eine stachelige Angelegenheit, denn ich hatte nicht an die doch sehr vielen, so kleinen wie nadelspitzen Steckstifte / Lötstifte / Verbindungsstifte und das andere spitze Zeugs, mit dem so eine Platine bestückt ist, gedacht. Unter den Arm klemmen war also nicht – und diese "Fasse-die-Platine-dort-an-wo-es-mal-nicht-pikt"-Erfahrung war dann offenbar doch so nachhaltig, dass ich mich gleich daran erinnert habe, als ich las, was das heutige Thema sein würde ;)
Ich habe hier beide Zwischenringe (10mm/16mm) und die Raynox-DCR-250-Makrolinse verwendet, um so nah wie möglich an die Reihe von Verbindungsstiften heranzukommen. Fotografiert habe ich deren Unterseite, mit gelb-goldenem Licht von der Seite, für das ich den halbtransparenten, gelben Schraubverschluss einer Spüliflasche auf den Kopf der LED-Lampe gesteckt habe (er passt wie dafür gemacht). Die Hintergrundfarbe kommt offenbar von der Wohnzimmerwand, da ich nichts hinter die Platine gestellt hatte. Das Resultat sieht überraschend luftig-leicht (für Technik) aus, finde ich. Die "Hütchen" erinnern mich durchaus ein wenig an Bauern auf einem Schachbrett, noch viel mehr erinnern sie mich aber an ein Corps de Ballet.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Sommerwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde. Und auch wenn die Inzidenzwerte momentan niedrig sind: Passt gut auf Euch auf!
#macromondays
#two
The strangest worlds reveal themselves when we look at things through a macro lens. Things get even stranger when we use extension tubes and a close-up lens on top. For the "Two" theme I thought I'd take another look at the old motherboard that I'd once got for free at a computer shop. Macros of a motherboard's front side often look like modern cities with skyscrapers and an endless maze of roads, but what I find even more interesting is a motherboard's backside with all those spiky (soldering) pins. These "twin pins" that I've found Close To The Edge of the motherboard's backside reminded me of a strange mountain form, Twin Peaks with extremely steep slopes that one might find on an alien planet.
The image is a focus stacking made of 15 photos which I've combined in Helicon Focus (B, Radius 1, Smoothing 2). Lightsources were: soft LED light from above, two Swedish LED lamps (one shone through a green bottle from the left, the other, equipped with the yellow plastic bottle cap, from the right), and an LED flashlight from above which I'd stuck into my trusty blue tealight holder (handheld).
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
Die faszinierendsten Welten offenbaren sich uns beim Blick durch ein Makroobjektiv, und es wird oft noch faszinierender, wenn wir das Makro mit Zwischenringen und einer Makro-Vorsatzlinse bestücken, um noch näher an das winzige Objekt der fotografischen Begierde heranzukommen. So auch hier. Für das "Two"-Thema hatte ich mir wieder die alte Hauptplatine, die ich mal bei einer Computerbude abgestaubt hatte, vorgeknöpft. Die Vorderseite einer Hauptplatine erinnert ja oft an eine moderne Großstadt mit Wolkenkratzern und endlosem Straßenlabyrinth, aber fast noch interessanter finde ich die stachelige Rückseite mit den winzigen Lötstiften. Es gab dort einiges für das Thema "Two" zu finden, aber dieses seltsame, doppel"zahnige" Gebilde fand ich besonders spannend, weil es mich gleich an eine ungewöhnliche Bergformation erinnerte, wie man sie wohl nur auf einem außerirdischen Planeten vorfinden könnte.
Das Foto ist ein Stacking bestehend aus 15 Fotos, die ich in Helicon Focus kombiniert habe (B, Radius 1, Smoothing 2). Als Lichtquellen kamen weiches LED-Licht von oben sowie meine bewährten Improvisationsfarbfilter zum Einsatz: zwei schwedische LED-Strahler (von links durch eine grüne Flasche geleuchtet, die rechte Lampe mit dem gelben Plastik-Flaschenverschluss bestückt) und als dritte Farbquelle habe ich eine kleine Taschenlampe in den blauen Teelichthalter gesteckt und direkt über die "Twin Peaks" gehalten.
HMM allerseits, ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Februar-Vorfrühlingswoche mit hoffentlich ruhigerem Wettergeschehen.
A single strand of Alisons hair in a comb, in this very high magnification macro that was a very fiddly shoot! Shot for Macro Mondays "The space in between" theme, HMM :)
...Said everyone's favourite Borg Seven of Nine after smoking some... No, no, not what you think ;) But this semi-translucent, lavender-coloured fluorite, which consists of many cubic shaped crystals with many #corners, has always reminded me of a Borg cube. Albeit a rather psychedelic, flower power, rock'n'roll-type of Borg cube, because the way the cubic crystals are shaped and arranged also conveys a certain kind of cheerful chaos. And lavender also definitely isn't your typical Borg colour. Which makes this a peace and love hippie Borg cube :)
Explored January 10, 2022
Photographed with the M.Zuiko 30mm F3.5 macro lens, the 60mm's little brother. Unlike the 60mm, which is a "true" macro lens with a 1:1 magnification, the 30mm gives you a magnification of 1,25 (2,5 in the MFT world). The fantastic Laowa 50mm Ultra Macro lens offers even more magnification (Goodbye extension tubes!), and it's still on my list, but Olympus – or rather OM System, as the company is called now – had a lens promotion, so I was able to get this already very affordable lens literally dirt-cheap, so I went for it. It's not a pro lens like the 60mm, it's all plastic, no weather sealing etc., but it supports the in-camera focus stacking function, and together with the 16mm extension tube and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens (which I've both used for this shot) it's only as long as the 60mm without any extensions. And last, but not least, the image quality is excellent, too. Of course it won't replace my trusty 60mm, but it's a great addititon to it with its extra magnification (and the length of this technical description gives away that I still had to justify the purchase for myself, because Santa had already brought me another new lens). The minimum focusing distance is a mere 14 cm (5,51 inches) which means that you can get really close to your photographic subject, and with extension tubes and close-up lens mounted that focusing distance shrinks considerably once again. In fact, for this image I was so close that the Raynox close-up lens actually touched the upper part of the fluorite. Soft light from above prevented shading from the lens (to which it is prone also without extensions due to the super short focusing distance). OK, enough tech talk, more info on the programmes used for post processing is in the tags ;)
P.S. Thank you wolli s for the tip to slightly oil the subject after dusting it to keep it lint-free, it works!
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, have a nice week ahead, and stay safe!
I'll catch up with you tonight!
Brasilian polished agate plates captured in transmitted light, with a macro lens and extension tubes (magnification 2-3X).
Für Carmen Neumeier!
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#card
Well, indeed. Because this chip has in fact never seen me typing a PIN number at an Automated Teller Machine (and neither has it seen such a machine from the inside). My bank had accidentally issued that debit card, so I only ever got as far as signing it. I'd decided to keep the card for a possible future use for a Macro Monday theme, however, and that future is now.
At first I went for the chip's frontside. I'd noticed that the lines on the chip are actually kind of engraved, so I held a torch right behind the chip to see if backlighting would achieve anything. It did, the lines were glowing in a lovely electric blue tone, and I'd also discovered that there were some letters printed on the chip, like a secret message (that, so far, I've failed to decipher). So I took a few nicely abstract images of the chip's front side, but then I started wondering if backlighting the back side of the chip might yield an even more interesting result. I think it did, and this is what you can see here. The glow pattern that emerged looks like a graphic character to me, and I wish it would mean Peace.
The setup was really simple, card fixated with two clamps, put on a weighty tome to achieve the right shooting position, camera placed directly in front of it, torch held directly behind the chip, one soft light placed right above the tome and card. I've taken images both with the 60mm macro lens plus extension tubes and the 30 mm macro lens without extension tubes (as it has a 2,5x magnification). The images turned out all very similar, only the amount of glow of the lines varied due to the angle of the handheld torch, and this photo had the best colours and contrast. Processed in DXO PL5 and Lightroom where I've slightly enhanced the colours (namely with LR's Primary sliders for red, green and blue).
HMM Everyone, and let us pray for peace for the Ukrainians and for the World.
I'll catch up with you tonight!
The poppies are a subspecies of the better known California poppy. The blooms are only about an inch wide and they are 4 - 6 inches off the ground. To shoot these, I had to lie on my stomach or side. Shot with a Canon 100mm macro with a Canon life-size converter mounted to my Canon 5D Mark IV.
Viewing Large On Black Is Probably Better
This is not the sharpest clearest shot you normally see of water droplets... but this is the best I came up with...
This was shot using a reverse ring adapter... and was extremely difficult to shoot hand-held... I was about less than 1cm away from these droplets... that's how close I was!
The reverse ring adapter simply allows you to connect your ordinary lens into the camera body in 'reverse' turning it into an extreme macro lens... The only thing is, everything is manual...
I haven't had much practice lately... so yeah... enjoy this in the mean time...
HGGT - Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday!
Macro Extremo 5X
2016-05-12 13-49-04 (Meth B, Radius8,Smooth4)
Foto realizada acoplando a mi 600D una óptica de microscopio Mitutoyo con un tubo de extensión de 180mm, disparando 900 fotos con espaciados de 10 micras y procesando con Helicon para el apilamiento y LR4 para la eliminación de halos y artefactos. Iluminación dentro de caja (esfera) de luces compuesta por 78 Leeds. El tamaño del espécimen es de 10mm de longitud, con cabeza de 2mm. Seguimos en pruebas y mejorando la técnica.
IN MY POOR ENGLISH:
This was shoted with a D600 and a 5X Mitutoyo microscopic optic and 180mm extensión tube, shoting 900 pics whith 10 microns between each shot and procesing the stack with Helicon and using LR4 for removing halos and artefacts.
Lighting inside a esphre with 78 leeds. The specimen size is 10mm lenth and head is 2mm. Following learning and improovement the technic.
The business end of an Ohio Blue Tip match.
Extreme macro: 2.5x (reversed 24mm lens on 36mm extension tube).
Focus stack: 81 images.
Illumination: LED panel and LED flashlight.
My first attempt in extreme macro focus stacking photography.
66 shots
1/30"
f5.6
ISO 100
In my set-up for this photo I used:
Samsung NX1 camera
Nikon EL-Nikkor 50mm f2.8 N Enlarging lens
M42 macro bellows
NX - M42 adapter
M42 - M39 adapter
Metz 44 AF-1 NX speedlight in TTL mode
Yongnuo YN560 IV speedlight in manual mode
2X Metz SB 18X15 Soft box
JJC FC-NX TTL off camera flash cord
Samsung SR2NX02 remote control
Manfrotto 454 Micrometric Positioning Sliding Plate
Manfrotto MK190XPRO3 tripod
Manfrotto MVH500AH head
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