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The theme for Macro Mondays is "Guilty Pleasures".....One of mine is, I'm a collector.....of documents, stamps, coins, vintage photos.
Note the figures on the 1910 bill for plumbing work. Dec. 22- 30...dig a ditch and install 33 ft of pipe $26.50 for parts and labor and not the digger made more that the plumber did. HMM.
An early morning stack of this worn out common blue. Taken last month as it was just warming up for the day.
8 images stacked in Zerene Stacker. Sigma 150mm f2.8 macro: f8.0, 1/50 sec, ISO 1600.
Lead has been used in many Indian and African traditional remedies for centuries with varying degrees of success and failure.
Most pencils now contain no lead but it is etched in British culture. Thanks for viewing.
This is about as a close selfie as one can get! It was quite challenging technically. I used a 1.5:1 macro lens (70-200 f4 lens at 100mm + three extension tubes with electric wiring for AF and aperture control), at the distance ~10cm from my eye. I put my largest studio light (60" octagon softbox) behind the camera, with a speedlight used at full power. I used aperture f8, which gave me enough of DoF (barely) and resulted in a reasonably sharp image. In PP, I removed the reflection from the light and the camera inside my pupil.
The hardest part was to get the focus right. AF is almost useless at such high magnifications. It took me probably around 100 attempts to get it more or less right.
Looks like a solar eclipse in the eye!
HSS everyone!
Conopid fly tracking bumble bees around a hebe bush. These flies intercept bumble bees in flight and lay an egg on them.
Sicus ferrugineus.
Strong natural light. These flies intercept bumble bees in flight and lay an egg on them.
Sicus ferrugineus.