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Componon-S 2.8/50 Makro-Iris mounted on Novoflex Castbal T/S and Castel-Micro focusing rail. 51 images stacked in Helicon Focus
#MacroMonday
#Hook
Velcro® tape. Not what I wanted to do for the theme at all, in fact I didn't even remotely think of using velcro for the "Hook" theme. But then, yesterday, Flickr friend TOMFLASH91 happened to fave a photo of mine that I had taken for the MM theme "Connection" back in September 2017 (you can find it in the first comment). When I noticed the fave and looked at my "Connection" photo, one I had almost forgotten about after three years, it was a true "Heureka! moment", and I almost yelled "Hook, hook hooray!", because I definitely knew what I'd do for "Hook". So a huge thank you goes out to TOMFLASH for the inspiration, you've saved my Sunday :)
Since I didn't want to present a similar or almost identical velcro capture to you, I also knew that this time I had to use the extension tubes (I didn't even own extension tubes back in 2017). I had both extension tubes (10 and 16mm) mounted, plus the Raynox DCR-250 "Super Macro Conversion Lens" to get as close as possible to those tiny velcro hooks. And you know how super tiny the hooks of a "hook-and-loop fastener" are. It was as hard to measure the length of a single hook (approximately 1 mm / 0,039 inches) as it was difficult to focus. I lost focus numerous times, or rather the camera didn't find it in the first place, so I switched to manual focus only, and even then it was rather tricky, I had to move the camera forth and back (easier anyway) many times, but in the end I was really quite happy with the result, even though not everything is perfectly sharp, but I think there is enough sharpness to make it easy on the eyes. One thing is similar to my "Connection" image: For the upper "hook" part I'd used black velcro, for the soft, loopy part I'd used a white counterpart. There is only a hint of the loopy part visible here, in the lower right corner, and I had considered to crop that away to have the hook part going from one corner to the other, but I actually like the "loopy hint", because I think it completes the image. Because, after all, when it comes to Velcro, one can't be without the other (well, the hook part can, just think of soft fabrics, wool...). The perfect symbiosis :)
Lightsources were two LED lamps equipped with my improvised colour "filters": the translucent red plastic lid of a chocolate box, and a small green glass bottle. Sharpened in Topaz Sharpen AI (method "Stabilize", sharpening at 67, noise reduction at 28), and processed in LR only, where I removed some haze (at 35) and increased the saturation of green, orange, and slightly tweaked the luminosity of orange and yellow. It's a single shot, and for the very first time I had tried the Oly's "High-Res mode" which creates a 40 MP image by shifting the sensor around. I'm quite impressed with the file ;-)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, and have a safe and nice week ahead!
Klettband. Das wollte ich eigentlich gar nicht machen, hatte nicht einmal daran gedacht, dass der widerborstige Teil, der sich so gerne an empfindlichen Textilien festkrallt, wenn sein weiches Gegenstück mal nicht schnell genug zur Stelle ist, ja aus winzigen Häkchen besteht. Dann hatte aber gestern einer meiner Flickr-Freunde, TOMFLASH91, ein Bild von mir gefaved, das ich mal für das 2017er-Thema "Connection" gemacht hatte (zu finden im ersten Kommentar). Genau: Klettband. Fast hätte ich laut "Hook hook Hurrah!" gerufen, denn jetzt wusste ich, was ich für das Thema machen würde :)
Natürlich wollte ich nicht wieder ein ähnliches Foto machen wie vor drei Jahren, daher habe ich die Zwischenringe (10 und 16mm) angeschraubt und an das 60er-Makro noch den Raynox-DCR-250-Makrovorsatz, um so nah wie möglich an die Häkchen heranzukommen. Das anschließende Ausmessen der Häkchengröße (gut 1 mm lang) war mindestens genauso kompliziert (Lupe und Lineal kombiniert) wie das Fokussieren. Mit der Einstellung S-AF+MF war es reines Glücksspiel, überhaupt mal etwas Ähnliches wie "Fokus" zu finden, weshalb ich dann auf MF mit Fokussierhilfe gewechselt und die Kamera vorsichtig vor- und zurückbewegt habe, für so eine Extrem-Nahaufnahme sowieso die bessere Methode. Das Ergebnis ist zwar nicht 100%ig scharf, aber scharf genug, um es angenehm betrachten zu können, denke ich. Als Lichtquellen habe ich zwei seitlich angeordnete LED-Strahler verwendet, die ich jeweils mit meinen improvisierten "Farbfiltern" versehen hatte, rechts den durchsichtig-roten Pralinenschachteldeckel, links eine grüne Glasflasche. Entwicklungsschritte: Schärfen in Topaz Sharpen AI (Modus "Stabilize" mit Schärfung bei 67 und Rauschunterdrückung bei 28); und in LR habe ich den Dunst etwas reduziert (35) und die Farbsättigung(en) und Luminanz(en) im HSL-Modul angepasst. Die Aufnahme ist ein Einzelbild, das ich, zum allerersten Mal überhaupt, im "High-Res-Modus" der Oly aufgenommen habe. Der Sensor wird dabei hin- und hergeschoben (oder so ähnlich) und die Kamera erzeugt eine 40-MP-Aufnahme.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde, passt gut auf Euch auf und bleibt gesund!
Macro Monday: #PatternsInNature
Width of the frame: 1,5 cm / 0,59 inches
Last Minute capture for "Patterns in Nature". It's an extreme close-up of an agate palm or worry stone which to me looks like a storm on Jupiter.
Taken with two Kenko extension tubes (16 and 10 mm) and the Raynox DCR-250 "super macro conversion lens" all mounted to my macro lens, and with in-camera focus stacking. Developed and processed in ON1 Photo Raw. It's amazing that some backlight, and then haze reduction and increase of saturation and dynamic range brought out these colours on what looks like a fairly palish (mostly brown and white tones) mineral to the unaided eye (no extra colours added!).
A Happy Macro Monday, Everyone!
Jupiter-Wetterbericht
Offensichtlich ist Sturm auf dem Gasriesen angesagt ;-)
Last-Minute-Foto für das Thema "Patterns in Nature". Extrem-Makro (so etwas in der Art) eines Achat-Handschmeichlers, aufgenommen mit zwei Kenko-Zwischenringen (10 und 16 mm) in Kombination mit dem Raynox-DCR-250-Macro-Converter. Von hinten angestrahlt und mit der Kamera-internen Fokus-Stacking-Funktion aufgenommen. Entwickelt in ON1 Photo RAW. Die Hintergrundbeleuchtung sowie "Haze Reduction" (Dunst entfernen) und die leichte Erhöhung der Sättigung und des Dynamik-Umfangs brachten mal wieder erstaunliche Farben zutage, die mit dem bloßen Auge so nicht zu sehen sind, da wirkt der interessant gemusterte Stein eher blass mit seiner bräunlichen Grundfarbe sowie der weißlichen Bänderung. Die Gelb- und Orange-Töne dürften auch überwiegend dem Hintergrundlicht zu verdanken sein. Künstliche Farben habe ich der Aufnahme aber nicht hinzugefügt.
Ich wünsche Euche eine schöne Sommerwoche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Mitutoyo 5X Objective
+Raynox DCR 250 reversed
Nikon Bellows PB-6
121 pics, 40 μm
ISO 100, 1/320
2 Speedlight SB-800, w/diffuser
Just a simple flower to celebrate the Spring weather we are enjoying for the time being.
A focusstack of about 60 shots, stacked with Affinity Photo. As always the credit also goes to that great Laowa 65 mm f2.8 macro lens.
Brasilian polished agate plates captured in transmitted light, with a macro lens and extension tubes (magnification 2-3X).
For AHLXNOE
This parasitoid wasp is really tiny, compared to others in my "collection" (image width ~1.8mm). Interference colors of the wings are very saturated, due to their very thin structure (~ 100-200nm). So they are 1st order interference, compare with this analysis (lower graph):
Mitutoyo 20x NA 0.42, tube lens: 200mm (Nikon)
Illumination: Oblique
#MacroMondays
#EDC
I wasn't sure if things that you have on you every day (like glasses) were OK for the theme, so I decided to photograph my little GRIII as that required "other" EDC that, together with my (now unfortunately slightly faltering Lumix LX100), is always in my shoulder bag. I have two compartments reservered for the cams that also offer enough space for spare batteries.
I have a lot of EDC stuff in my bag and also jacket pockets for (almost) all eventualities, so maybe I would have been a good scout. One of these "be prepared" items is a few strips of plaster. As a possibility for "EDC", I've photographed the padded part of a "Hansaplast Aqua Protect" plaster, and it looked interesting in close-up but I decided to keep that idea for a future "Dots" or "Hexagonal" theme ;)
What I don't have in my bag anymore is the small screwdriver to fix my glasses' hinges if required (I can always fix them at home) or my miniature Swiss pocket knife because there are spots where knives are prohibited (there's a huge problem with people carrying knives, especially male teenagers, but also others), and I don't want to get in trouble because of a tiny pocket knife.
But now for my subject: The GRIII's mode dial has three user preset options, U1, U2, U3, and I've assigned them as follows: U1 is for general "Architecture and Landscape", meaning that I've set a base aperture that usually works best for anything (F 5.6). U2 is my macro preset (essential!), and U3 is assigned to HDR for the more difficult light situations.
I used two light sources: the natural light photo LED from above and a single LED from the right that I had pointed at the gold-coloured cardboard reflector (handheld) for a warmer second tone (the GR's mode dial is all black with raised silvery indicators).
I'll try to catch up with you tonight! HMM :)
Brasilian polished agate plates captured in transmitted light, with a macro lens and extension tubes (magnification 2-3X).
#macromondays
#leaf
The edge of a succulent leaf, to be precise. Or not so precise, because I think this should be an Aeonium, but there are so many varieties that I couldn't find which variety this is exactly. The leaves are thick, and feel velvety to the touch, because each leaf is covered with a dense fluff of translucent, tiny, tentacle-like hair. And, let's face it, plants in my home need to be: easy to care for. Which succulents definitely are ;)
I've used both extension tubes (10 and 16 mm) and the Raynox DCR-250 close-up lens to get as close as possible. The image was backlit by a small LED flashlight, and it's a focus stack of 15 images which I've combined in Helicon Focus (method B, radius 6, smoothing 4). Further processed in DXO PhotoLab with local adjustments on the upper right part of the leaf (exposure / highlights) which was a little too bright, because I had to place the flashlight a little off center (on the right) to avoid that it's visible in the image. Further processing in Analog Efex (Detail Extraction and Classic Camera 6 further tweaked). Final tweaks in LR where I'd slighty increased the green saturation, lowered the blacks, and boosted the structure.
HMM, Everyone, and have a safe and nice new week ahead!
Tausendfüßler
Und eigentlich der Blattrand eines kleinen Sukkulenten-Blattes. Auf jeden Fall handelt es sich um ein Dickblattgewächs, vermutlich Aeonium; die Blätter wachsen rosettenförmig, haben eine kleine, nach innen gewölbte Spitze und sind vollständig von einem samtig-dichten Flaum winziger, durchsichtiger Härchen überzogen. Ich habe hier beide Zwischenringe (10 und 16 mm) und den Raynox DCR-250 Makrovorsatz verwendet, um möglichst nah an diese faszinierenden, tentakelartigen Härchen heranzukommen.
Beleuchtet von rechts hinten mit einer kleinen Taschenlampe. Licht direkt von hinten war hier nicht machbar, weil das Blatt kleiner als der Durchmesser des Frontelements der Taschenlampe (1,5 cm) war. Da der rechte obere Teil des Blattes dadurch ein wenig zu hell geraten war, habe ich in DXO mit dem Werkzeug für lokale Anpassungen dort die Spitzlichter und die Belichtung etwas runtergeschraubt. Was noch: Analog Efex, dort nur Detailextrahierung und Klassische Kamera 6 mit eigenen Anpassungen, keine Vignette, die hier nur gestört hätte. Und in LR habe ich noch die Schwarztöne etwas runtergesetzt, die Grün-Sättigung leicht erhöht und die Struktur verstärkt.
Ich wünsche Euch eine schöne Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!
Black Ant.
Bit more antique microscope extreme macrophotography (if that’s a thing?). About 30 images stacked on a manual focus slider made from another old microscope chassis.
Sony Nex 5T + Panagor 55mm f3.0 1:1 Macro Lens + 30mm extension @1,5:1 magnification,
9 natural light exposures (1/4 sec., ISO200, f8 or f11)
Specimen found in Hamburg, Germany.
I had some trouble with the wind while i did this field stack. This was the occasion to test my new DIY wind blocker/diffuser. Works fine so far.
More informations/photos in the comment section.
Familia: Apidae
Subfamilia: Nomadinae
Tribe: Epeolini
Genus: Epeolus
Species: Epeolus cruciger
Happy 20th Birthday, Flickr :)
Thank you so much, dear Flickr Team, for choosing my photo as one of the winners. I didn't expect this at all, and I appreciate it so much! 😊🙏
#MacroMondays
#Abstract
Please press "Z".
A subject I have already photographed two times for Macro Mondays: reflective fabric. Reflective fabric, tape, or (adhesive) foil is used for all kinds of gear or clothes to enhance security at night or generally in dark conditions. To achieve the reflective effect, super tiny micro glass beads are embedded/incorporated into the fabric. Sometimes, a top layer of foil is added for colouration.
I was curious to see how much magnification I could achieve with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens. But the beads are so teeny-tiny that I had to add the 10mm extension tube and use my camera's High-res mode for maximum magnification and a resolution high enough so I was able to crop in the image quite considerably in post to really make the beads clearly visible and also still retain all the details.
And since it's Flickr's birthday, I thought I'd use my makeshift colour filters to add the Flickr colors. For this, I used a blue semi-transparent plastic lid (a new addition to my colour filter collection; placed in front of an LED lamp from the left) of a tin that recently still contained quite deliciously spiced-up cashews (now all gone), and the trusted, pinkish-red, transparent chocolate box lid which I held against my natural light photo lamp (light from above).
HMM, Everyone! I'm very busy today and will catch up with you tonight!
#MacroMondays
#PhotographicEquippment
Many vintage lenses have a nicely textured focus ring for a good grip, look, and feel, and so does the focus ring of my vintage Olympus Zuiko lens. Its focus ring is embossed with hundreds (I didn't count them) of tiny "diamonds", and I was curious to see how they looked when getting extra close with the Laowa Ultra Macro lens.
At first, I went for colour (of course...), put the red transparent plastic lid in front of one LED lamp and the green bottle in front of the other (I also tried blue instead of green and all three colours together) but, surprise, it was too much even for me. So I tried a different approach: I used the natural light photo lamp from above as my main light source and pointed one of the LEDs against the gold-coated cardboard cake board "reflector" (which I held above the focus ring) for a single, warm colour accent.
This indeed yielded the nicest-looking results. I also went for a shallow DOF with lots of rhombic bokeh (a single shot), which helped transform the expected macro dust into tiny bokeh balls. I still removed some dust in Photoshop, especially on the in-focus diamonds. Maybe a soft brush would have helped remove more of the dust than the microfibre cloth did but I hope it's still pleasant to look at ;)
HMM, Everyone!
#sliderssunday
Spring arrived with a bang. A temperature drop has been announced for next week but only for a few days – winter is definitely over :) While this Amaryllis stigma isn't a part of the current spring explosion, it still symbolizes new life, so I chose it as my Easter greetings image.
You've already seen this same stigma for Macro Mondays' "Wet" theme this January (please see the first comment). I'd photographed it (and the blossom) in several stages of bloom, and this was the earliest stage, with the stigma just beginning to open and curiously taking a first peek into the world around it. What always fascinates me about flowers/plants in close-up is the tiny, often translucent "hair", the trichome, of which this stigma has plenty. I think the trichome makes it look even more like a (friendly) alien life form.
I've kept the Amaryllis blossom which now is shriveled and dried up in the way only flowers can: gracefully and in beauty.
Wishing you (if you celebrate) a Happy Easter, and a wonderful (Sliders) Sunday :)
Brasilian polished agate plates captured in transmitted light, with a macro lens and extension tubes (magnification 2-3X).
Looking close... on Friday (Shades of brown)
There are an estimated > 60000 species in this family, so I did not try to nail down the exact species. They come in sizes from 1mm- 10mm, this one is about 3mm (body length).
Females have a long ovipositor (as seen here), essential for their parasitoid life-cycle.
This behavior made Darwin doubt about the nature and existence of a Creator.
Objective: Mitutoyo 7.5x Na 0.21, tube lens: Nikon 200mm
Illumination. Dark field and oblique
#MacroMondays
#Carbon
What a difficult theme. My mind went blank when I read "Carbon". I thought "Should I buy something made of carbon?", and looked online for ball pens and other small carbon-made items but then decided against it. I thought of using my tripod as a subject because it has legs made of carbon. But it looked like absolutely nothing when I got close to the pattern. Ditto my one Casio watch that has a "Carbon Core Guard" casing.
So consequently this is a last-minute photo of the obvious that every one of us has at home: a pencil, or rather a pencil lead in a "Koh-i Noor Hardtmuth" clutch pencil. I have taken similar photos before, with the tip of the lead in focus, so to make it a little different, I focused directly on the top of the tip and got as close as possible. The rings of bokeh around the lead are the pencil's metal opening. Light sources were my natural light photo lamp from above (and slightly from the left), and my two go-to single LEDs shone through a green bottle (left) and the transparent red plastic lid (right). The blue is from a small blue glass jar on which I'd placed the pencil.
Kudos to the members who photographed diamonds or match sticks for the theme. I didn't even think of these items because I kind of blocked myself ;)
HMM, Everyone!
#MacroMondays
#Tiny
#BlingMonday:)
They are an improbable couple, indeed, but these two items came to my mind instantly when I read "Tiny". The (broken) screw is from a modding set I bought for one of my Casios, and the tip of the screw is still stuck in the watch's casing (I have no idea how to remove something so tiny) so the bezel is now fixated with three screws only but so what, it sits absolutely secure on the watch.
The screw is 0,4 mm/0,15 inches "tall", and the screw and the Swarovski crystal together are 0,6 mm/0,23 inches wide. I've used these crystals (that I got loose and in different sizes – this is the smallest size: 3,5 mm/0,13 inches in diameter) in a few other MM themes because they are so nice and shiny, and because it's Monday, I thought I'd add some extra bling with the star filter.
I'd have loved to stack the screw and the crystal but there was no way I could fixate the crystal on top of the screw because even the tiniest piece of modeling clay would still have been too big for the scene. I did some focus stacking with the 60mm macro but in the end, I liked the single image taken with the Laowa 2x macro better because it looked more organic (although I admit it could be a little sharper) and I was also able to get much closer to the scene with this lens. It's not quite the lens's maximum magnification of 2:1 but almost.
And actually, it's "The Odd Couple II" because I'd already photographed a pair of matches under that title for our "Matchstick" theme in June '21. But since the original movie with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon from 1968 was also made into a TV show in the 1970s, and then again in the 2010s, with several episodes, why not name more than one photo after it ;)
HMM, Everyone!
Three seconds long...
#MacroMondays
#WearAndTear
The battered glass stone of a steel tension ring that originally belonged to my Mum magrit k.. At one point, it got a little too small for her, and since it's made of steel there's no such thing as widening it easily like a silver or gold ring, so she gave it to me :) My Mum must have bumped against something one or more times while wearing the ring which resulted in this cracked dent that, to my delight, almost looks like a 💗 when seen in close-up; there's also some wear and tear visible on the brushed steel.
And yes, this glass stone is "three seconds" in diameter. Due to the lack of a close-at-hand ruler (and a distinct laziness in fetching it from the desk), I used the seconds marks of my automatic Citizen watch to measure the stone's diameter. The three seconds translate into 4 mm/0.157 inches.
Technical info: single shot illuminated by two LED lamps (left and right) and my LED Lenser flashlight set on "Spot", handheld from above to highlight the heart-shaped "Wear and Tear".
HMM, Everyone! I'll catch up with you later!
Another example of thin film interference.
Brown Lacewing (Hemerobius humulinus)
Mitutoyo 2x NA 0.055, tube lens: 200mm (Nikon)
Illumination: White LED light (diffused)
Dandelion seed head with dew.
More from the antique microscope extreme macro rig, using the Leitz Wetzlar low power objective from an 1870 microscope. And a dandelion.
Great Dixter gardens macro bliss :)
I recently visited Great Dixter gardens and it was the first time in months that I've been out and about for pleasure.
The gardens didn't disappoint ! It is well worth a visit.
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5x Objective
+Raynox DCR 150 Lens reversed
150 pics, 35 microns
ISO L1.0, 1/250s
Nikon Bellows PB-6
3 SB-800 Speedlight,w/diffuser
Common horse fly (Haematopota pluvialis)
Portrait of this species can be seen here
Mitutoyo QV 2.5, tube lens: Raynox 125mm (pano of 2 stacks)
Illumination: diffused oblique and backlight