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Exploring The World Within A Water Droplet
This is what happens when you don't feel like going outside to photograph and try to stay creative inside your own home.
Happy weekend!
This image is included in 2 galleries :- 1) "Macro Magic" curated by Richard Harvey UK and and 4) "Paesaggi 22" by Stefano Bacci.
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A closer look at the delicate white bloom of the ivy gourd vine (Coccinia grandis). The star-shaped flower, with its translucent veins, glows softly against the dark background, a little bit of magic in the details. ✨ மலரின் நுட்பக்கூறுகள் இயற்கையின் அற்புதம். 🌿
Well it is that time of year and we were putting up yer man in the red suit around the place and I thought it might be an idea to include him in the Chain Theme, so here it is, some drops of oil onto the links with a picture of himself behind, and upside down of course as it becomes inverted through the drop, you have to work quickly because the drops will drip off the links in a short time, usually when you are just about to click, anyway set cam on tripod, high aperture and it should be low ISO but I forgot to change or even check it, and adjust shutter to get your exposure!
I just see it now OMG 640iso which was from the last job!
Anyway Thanks for stopping to have a look and for your favs and comments, and a Big Happy Christmas to Everyone (yes I know its early but just gettin a few bankers in)
Dedicated to the people of Chile in the aftermath of a devastating 8.8 earthquake.
HMB and thanks for visiting!
Heute sind die ersten Schneeflocken, auch in tiefen Lagen gefallen und ich fand im Wald auch einige Pilze mit Schneehütchen auf.
Ich entschied mich wieder mal ein sogenannter Magic Mushroom-Effekt zu versuchen. Nein keine Panik, DIE Experimente lasse ich bleiben 😬
Mit Magic meine ich, dass ich den Pilz so beleuchte, dass nur die Unterseite mit den Lammellen leuchtet. War nicht ganz einfach, denn die Lampe liess die Flocken sehr schnell schmelzen. Deshalb musste ich mich beeilen und das lässt diese Art Fotografie nicht wirklich zu…
Trotzdem kriegte ich es, zwar mit kleinen Abstrichen hin und schon wechselte es von Schneeflocken zum Regen und ich war bereits nass bis auf die Knochen.
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A closer look at this large water drop reveals how it magnifies the feather's details... i.e., its barbs and barbules.
A typical vaned feather features a main shaft, called the rachis. Fused to the rachis are a series of branches, or barbs; the barbs themselves are also branched and form the barbules. These barbules have minute hooks called barbicels for cross-attachment. [...] Feathers insulate birds from water and cold temperatures.
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A bit of macro magic.. ;D
Freezing bubbles in the winter cold is magical, but what happens when you place a swirling freezing orb of ice on a flower? Magic. View large!
This freezing bubble is delicately placed in the center of a Gerbera Daisy, something definitely out of place in the winter landscape but also something that adds a lot of life to the image. Initial experiments were with roses, but they didn’t look quite as good. It’s a concept I’ll revisit, but for now the daisy wins as most successful experiment. The radial petals also allows me to carefully place one petal below the main arrangement to fill in the gap between the other petals and the snow.
At first, the bubble wouldn’t freeze. The flower has too much radiant heat from being inside that I couldn’t get anything like this to show up. After leaving the flower outside for about 15 minutes, the bubbles began to behave properly. After about an hour or so in the cold, the flower was beginning to wilt and fade, so there is a window of time you need to work in. Roses tend to last much longer, which gives me even more ideas to explore there.
The image is lit with two flashlights. One light is very directional and aimed at a distance to beam through the bubble, which creates a very pleasing backlit glowing feel. A second flashlight of equal brightness was placed close by, illuminating the underside of the flower which in turn reflected light back down onto the snow. A solid 20-30 minutes was spent using flashes, continuous flashlights, combinations of both, and in all different positions to get the lighting feel you see here. I would let one bubble freeze solid as a “prop” for me to preview my lighting arrangement, and then blow a fresh bubble when everything was in place.
In the end, we have a flower emerging from the snow to give birth to hundreds of snowflake-like specks of frost on a winter night. It’s not how real snowflakes are born, but it’s a fun way to imagine it.
If you enjoy my winter macro photography, you’ll love my book Sky Crystals: www.skycrystals.ca/book/ - it details everything you could ever want to know about snowflakes and extreme macro photography related to photographing them. While it’s focused on the skyborne crystals and not the ones we make here on earth, it’s still a great read for anyone with a macro lens in the winter!
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A bit of macro magic.. ;D