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Macro Mondays - High Key
LACPIXEL - 2020
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I felt the need for a little high key so here is one I took a couple of months ago with the Helios.
The daisies are from my wildflower patch, placed in a vase by my lounge window.
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Late in the game again with a photo that is a pure act of desperation. Really. I didn't want to skip "High Key", because it is pretty much out of my comfort zone so I wanted to meet this challenge. But I wasn't sure what to photograph. At the end (which means today) a tiny, shiny miniature crown that once graced a pencil bought at the museum shop of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (I've already used this crown in another photo which you can find in the first comment) and another watch (a Casio which you might have already guessed) came to the rescue. But does this image make any sense? I don't think so. Except maybe for the fact that a tiny crown is reflected in the glass of a digital watch that doesn't have a crown, only pushers. Oh dear ;)
OK, so let's skip my unsuccessful attempt at trying to make sense of an image that doesn't make any sense and get to the technicalities: The glass of this watch is double-coated (on the outside and on the inside). Seen at the right angle (light from above aka sunshine works best) it lets the dial shimmer in lovely pastel rainbow colours. But the glass also works as a mirror. So I simply placed the crown in front of it, illuminated the glass with a single LED light so the rainbow colour coating would work its irresistible iridescent magic on the crown's reflection, and took a single handheld shot. Which had to do, because I was running out of time. The bokeh in the lower right corner is the golden crown itself. Processed in DXO PL6, Color Efex, and Viveza.
HMM, Everyone, and have a nice week ahead!
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Inspiration came late for 2022's Redux theme, and it came with another watch – one that you've already seen for the "Curvy Lines" theme (please check the first comment).
The main theme I've redone here is "Vintage", and the capture also seems to be a mixture of "High Key" and "Low Key", so one might call this a "Mid Key" photo ;) There also is a touch of "My Closest" in this image, because although the frame itself isn't that tiny (the scene's height is roughly 1,5 cm/0,59 inches), I was very close to the watch itself, because the UV filter I use as protection for my 30mm macro lens was touching the lower left corner of the watch's glass. The watch itself isn't vintage in the sense of "old", it's a new model, but it's from Casio's "Vintage" collection, and the design itself is vintage, too, an original 1970s digital wristwatch design. By the way, my Dad's wristwatch which I had photographed for the original "Vintage" theme and which miraculously had started working again during that photoshoot is still running :)
Technically, this is a single photo illuminated by a single soft photo light from above. This time, I also didn't use any of my colour filters. The iridescent rainbow colours which I find so very irresistible come from the "ion plating" that has been applied to the stainless steel. I also decided to leave most of the tiny dust grains (and of course, I had polished the watch beforehand) in the image, because once again they reminded me of stars. So maybe we should begin to call the inevitable macro photo dust: stardust :) And please forgive the stupid title, I couldn't think of anything better ;)
Happy Macro Monday, Everyone, see you all for the first Macro Monday in (and the first day of) 2023 next week :) A special greeting goes to the MM members from the United States and Canada: I hope that all of you managed to stay safe and warm during the terrible blizzard. Keep safe, and take good care!
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