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...with mostly bokeh bling! I love bokeh, I admit apologetically. And with lights covered by yellow-gold transparent paper and this Laowa lens focusing so closely and magnifying the tiny wavy lines, these bokeh balls just sort of happen ;-)
Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2x macro lens. About 2inches/.5cm width of frame.
About f/4 aperture.
Plus, it is raining! Yippee!
"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself."
— Virginia Woolf (The Waves)
A water spill on my black granite kitchen countertop yielded this fascinating image. The water magnified the reflected backsplash tiles and the white grouting. It even sharpened the focus.
Taken with my rental Laowa 60mm f/2.8 2x macro lens that I just purchased. Inexpensive and fun.
Rare sunlight. I'm ready for rain now.
Rented from www.Lensrentals.com. Used that company for years now. I have no connection with the distant company. FedEx works well.
You need a haircut ;)
#MacroMonday
#Redux
#Brush
#High Key (sort of)
Please press "Z".
I've missed so many themes in 2020, so there was plenty to choose from – but the "Brush" theme from March actually wasn't on top of my list of what to do for Redux at all; in fact when I flipped through my "MM 2020" folder I even noticed that I'd skipped the theme already back in March: So how should I be able to come up with a nice photo just now?
Well, first of all there is this new brush that I've just bought and which is still in it's "virgin" state, because I thought I'd take a macro of it before I start using it in undoubtely futile attempts at taming my by now totally come apart haircut. So far, so boring. And I really thought that the first few test shots were kind of boring, until... well, until I looked at them on the monitor and noticed this perfectly sharp reflection of the bristles in the round tip of one single bristle (which is only 3 mm / 0,11 inches long). Something I hadn't even noticed while taking the photo.
Unfortunately, this first chance hit wasn't such a well composed image, because the in focus bristles are not where one would like to see them (rule of thirds), so I tried to reproduce the reflection. Have you ever used a magnifying glass to check your camera screen? This is what I did. And while I managed to get sharper, better composed images, I wasn't able to reproduce that clear and sharp reflection; I got reflections, but they never looked as nice and bright as the one(s) I got in my first attempt. So I decided to go with what I already had, clumsy composition or not. I thought about cropping the image, but that would have taken away the nice bokeh and golden sheen (light reflected by a piece of golden tinfoil) from the upper part of my image. What I also like are those "eyes" on the bristle tips, although they seem to say "Forget it, you'll never get your hair right!" ;)
HMM, Everyone! I wish you a Happy, Healthy New Year. Let's hope 2021 will be a better year than 2020. Stay safe and take care!
Captured for Smile on Saturday theme: Optical Instruments.
HSoS everyone!
And for Color my World Daily (Pink or Purple Day on Saturday).
Background is one of my paint pouring creations.
For Smile on Saturday! - Optical instruments
This hands-free hanging magnifier belonged to my paternal grandparents. Van Waffle (Pappy) might have used it for looking at his stamp collection or Fern (Mimi) might have used it to read books and the newspaper. I felt closer to Pappy than my other three grandparents. He had been a self-made, successful business owner and a hard man by many accounts. I never saw that side of him. The year I was born he suffered a heart attack and retired. I guess it softened him. He had time for me. He remained active and did not have another heart attack until 20 years later when he died peacefully in his sleep, age 82. I've kept this magnifier since Mimi moved out of their house into a nursing home 30 years ago, knowing it would become useful someday. So far I have only used it two or three times to fix difficult knitting errors. Pappy would be puzzled to find me using it in fibrecraft, but he shared my enjoyment of gardening and storytelling.
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 25/365
Thank you to everyone who visits, faves, and comments.
There is something quite elegant in the simplicity of Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings of flowers. O'Keeffe, most famous for her depiction of flowers, made about 200 flower paintings, which by the mid-1920s were large-scale depictions of flowers, as if seen through a magnifying lens. As she stated..."I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty." I find myself in awe of the folds and gentle curves of magnified flowers, too.
Explore #367- 27/11/2008
Wish you all a magnific and happy day my friends :))**
Another one of the portuguese fisherman boats that i love so much. Hope you like it also
Sunset ~ Watthana District ~ Bangkok, Thailand
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/8.0, 85mm, 1/250s
Another photo from my travel to Budapest. A different capture from the ones i use to upload for changing.
Have a nice and happy day my friends :))**
Macro Mondays..... Theme " Behind Glass "
I have chosen the magnifying glass,a lens that produces an enlarged image to aid my eyesight.
Thanks for the views,faves and comments.
Flying fish may be fairly common but they are extremely fast and explode out of the water like a missile glide or skim over the water for a bit and in a wink they are gone. I have only been able to see then a few times. This one left a trail from a bouncy sea entrance. We saw this one along with many others on a blustery day in the Atlantic Ocean about 10º N latitude south of Cape Verde.
Magnify to see it better..
The waves were sloshing around inside this huge iceberg at Keels NL colliding and creating explosions of spray.
shot with a fujifilm x-s10 and a helios 44m-4 58mm f/2 with a reversed rear element
my thoughts on this lens config: