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Gave the 1970s 90mm Elmarit-M a try on a Novoflex extension tube - not the perfect macro rig, but I like the old-school drawing this lens provides, flaws and all. Also just realized that the date is set incorrectly in the camera :-)
A portrait of a photographer: My mini-me photographer has returned to go climbing the romanesco in search of the perfect macro shot!
116 pictures in 2016 #97 Portrait
20th june 2009
iridescence
This little beetle really caught my eye in the garden today, even though it was it was only about 5mm long. Such beautiful metallic rainbow hues. (does anyone know what type of beetle, maybe a rainbow leaf beetle??)
Not the most techincally perfect macro I appreciate, firstly I would have liked to use a much smaller aperture however it only sat on the stem for a few minutes before off it went. Still, for a handheld shot using the extension tubes, in a gentle breeze, it'll do!
Taken using 12, 20 & 36mm tubes, 50mm (aperture f/1.8) in natural daylight.
Ah, If only I had a proper macro lens.. I'd be dangerous.... ;0)
[...] Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it [...]
-- Quote by Olive Schreiner (South African Writer, 1855-1920)
Rome, Italy (August, 2004)
Some highlights on its face were bleached out by the flash, but there wasn't really anything I could do about it. To get the proper exposure I had to do it. Focus stacked from two photos of different exposures which explains any strange edges you may find.
Found resting on a car antennae. Them seem to like perches like that.
I'm not sure of the species, I didn't get a chance to take any full body photos for identification, and anyways dragon flies are difficult to identify.
Make sure to view this one in the large size.
Geco delle Canarie orientali, Tarentola angustimentalis (Steindachner, 1891), Perenquén majorero @Lanzarote
© 2017 Massimo Pisetta Photography
EXIF data: Full-frame digital SLR; lens: 100mm Macro @100,0mm; shutter speed: 1/60 sec.; aperture: f/20,0; ISO 100; 3 flash & my perfect macro set
Keine wirklich eine perfekte Makroaufnahme. Der Wind hat hat das Seine dazu beigetragen. Aber das Bild ist gerade darum interssant geworden, so finde ich.
Sony A6000 mit dem Zoomobjektiv 16-70mm in Retrostellung montiert und mt 16mm fotografiert.
No really a perfect macro shot. The wind has contributed to this. But the picture has just become interesting, I think.
Sony A6000 with the zoom lens 16-70mm mounted in retro position and with 16mm photographed.
Returned to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. This time, the challenge was doing everything with me 60mm Macro lens.
This was a double-challenge. I still find the lighting in the Aquarium to be incredibly challenging and I've never used a set focal point lens for the duration of a photo walk.
A sea snail had climbed the glass of the tank and was feeding. It was a perfect Macro opportunity.
That is Vinca Rosea
Trying to learn 35mm ..
I know these are very common and simple photos - i can't find any time for a photo walk.
So home and little garden was the best way to satisfy by clicking!
Sakia | Dhaka , Bangladesh.
Taken with a Nikon D80 + AF Nikkor 50mm Æ’1.4D + Hoya Closeup Filter +3 | Ibai Lagoon, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia.
This flower is half the size of your little finger nail. Not the perfect macro, but one of these days I will take one that I'm over the moon about. Until then, this will have to suffice.
Just a quick upload to let you know how much I miss you guys. Hope to be able to start catching up with your work soon. My husband is finished with radiation treatment and first round of chemo- He spent two week in hospital recently but is home now and seems to be making some progress----he is hoping to be able to go back to work soon--we will see. Hope you all are doing well ----MISS YOU BUNCHES. HAVE A GREAT DAY. Oh by the way this is from my archives---no time to shoot right now.Our life is in a SPIN ------
EXPLORED ON 07 JUNE 2009 - # 218
SIGMA MACRO WEEK : Day One
A number of my Flickr friends have been writing to me about the performance of my new Sigma 150mm F2.8 APO Macro DG HSM Len.s Rather than write about it, I thought I would let my work with it answer their questions. So I dedicate this week to macro photographs, using this lens. Enjoy and feel free to leave your comments and criitque.
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As soon as I purchased the lens in Singapore, I headed out to the Butterfly Park to test it out. I spent about two hours or more clicking happily and enjoying every moment.
The staff became very friendly to me, as I it was already my third visit there. They would often come and inquire about my photographs and eagerly look at what I have shot. Soon they began to help me by pointing out interesting subjects.
At one time, one of them excitedly pointed to me this butterfly hanging on the tip of a leaf. She asked me to remain quite and took me by the hand into this bush where the light was just stunning. She also mentioned that this guy was newly born and hence would not move for a while.
I rejoiced as it was a perfect macro occasion, and best tested with my new lens. Though the critter did not move from the place at all as long as I was clicking, there still was some minor movement owing to the wind. Here I post one of the best shots from the shoot.
Photographed with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, and Sigma 150mm F2.8 APO Macro DG HSM. Handheld.
Photograph © Kausthub Desikachar
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One rose of my Garden after the morning rain
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I told several friends last Saturday during the Pinoy Macro anniversary that I have a photo of a louse and I was quite adamant to upload it because it was not a perfect macro. They urged me to post it nevertheless. I got the louse from a woman wanderer who was sitting near the gate of our house. She was removing lice from the head of her daughter. I told her I will pay her two pesos for a live one. I was expecting she would find a mature black louse. She gave me a very tiny one barely one and a half millimeter in size. The insect was still whitish in color.
Returned to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. This time, the challenge was doing everything with me 60mm Macro lens.
This was a double-challenge. I still find the lighting in the Aquarium to be incredibly challenging and I've never used a set focal point lens for the duration of a photo walk.
A sea snail had climbed the glass of the tank and was feeding. It was a perfect Macro opportunity.
Tree outside my house is absolutely gorgeous this time of year. Its full of pink and white blossom of goodness.
Its not perfect macro or very good photo but I am trying to work on extension tubes for first time, so yeh...
Handheld, as are all my macros...
Probably my personal favorite image in this series, due to its sharpness and composition. I like the individual stamens of the sedum flower splaying out in the foreground, as well as the 45 degree angle of the bee's body. It is a small bee, at 1/2 inch in size. And check out those two amazing antennae!!
This image features a particular behavior of this genus, which involves the drop of nectar hanging below the bee's mouth. This individual was in a trance-like state, barely moving except for the proboscis rhythmically moving up and down, extracting the water out of the nectar, enriching it for food for the hive. The black proboscis can be seen here at the bottom of the head, in it's closed position, with the nectar drooping below it. When the proboscis unfolded and extended open, the nectar would be sucked back into the bee's mouth, only to be squeezed out again when the mouth would close.
This must take quite a bit of time to distil the nectar, because I photographed this bee for over a half hour and it was in this state the whole time... The perfect macro model!
Isolated fruits - Strawberries on white background. This picture is part of the series "perfecting macros"
This is not a perfect macro, but I have tried to capture Moth's Eye through Reverse Lens. No ring used to fix the lens as well as no tripod.
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Returned to Ripley's Aquarium of Canada. This time, the challenge was doing everything with me 60mm Macro lens.
This was a double-challenge. I still find the lighting in the Aquarium to be incredibly challenging and I've never used a set focal point lens for the duration of a photo walk.
A sea snail had climbed the glass of the tank and was feeding. It was a perfect Macro opportunity.
A simple red Anemone but today i need a little bit happiness and i think, somehow this pretty flower looks very happy ;-).
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We've all had the wind blow and make it difficult to get that perfect macro shot-- but sometimes you end up with something interesting.
I am no entomologist! I don't even know if this is a moth or a butterfly. And it by no means a perfect macro shot (not all of the insect is in focus).
Edit: Just learnt it's a Red Admiral Butterfly :)
But I'm happy with it - taken with a 60mm macro lens so I had to get too close to the critters and scared most of them off.
Can't wait to go back again with my D810 and 105mm macro lens this summer.
I might just get something half decent.
Spotted at #468 on Explore, September 29, 2008 ~ but not picked up by Scout.
Straight from the camera, except for a crop
Thanks to Sharon and Ann for the ID (and hence, the new title) !!
Oh.. and to Wikipedia for confirming it and adding a few more common names... ;-)
While out hunting in the jungle for the perfect Macro Monday submission, I stumbled across this lost and lonely sole. Couldn't help myself..... fineartamerica.com/profiles/1-jason-jacobs.html
Picture taken of me with my cat Bobo in 1955.....second picture today, same chair, same fabric but couldn't get my mom's cat Bobo #2 to join me.......I was tagged by Magikquilter www.flickr.com/photos/magikquilter/3221756653/
to tell 16 unique things about me.
1. This chair is unique because as you can see it was in my home as a child. My mother bought the pair of wing backed chairs in 1955 and just recently she gave me one of them for my sewing room and she still has the other in her living room. It is the original down cushion and the original olive green brocade. (Actually she tells me she had the chairs re-covered once in the 1970's.....the original color was a light cocoa brown brocade>)
2. I was raised in a very small town for the first 18 years of my life. Then off to college as an art major where I met my husband and married him at 19 and began the nomad life of a construction engineer's wife. We have so far moved 19 times in 46 years of marriage and lived in Washington, Oregon, California, South Carolina , Florida and Hawaii. For the last 11 years we have been in Oregon and that's the longest we've ever lived in one house. (must be time to move?)
3. I count as my biggest accomplishment in life raising three incredible daughters who have given me 6 fabulous grand children and 3 great son-in-laws. Two are close and one recently moved to New Zealand so we now have a new part of the world to explore.
4. Growing up I always hated sewing....got my worst grades in those classes, wanted to be an artist but after I married my husband and transferred colleges there was no art major at his engineering school so I got my BS in Home Economics.
5. I always enjoyed crafts and anything that used color and design skills. In 1980 a friend talked me into taking a quilting class with her and I fell in love with sewing as it pertained to quilting. I think not having to make clothing was the key.
6. Over the years I have worked in several quilt shops in various parts of the country and made 100's of quilts, quilting has also brought me friends from all over the world.
7. In 1997 my husband was laid off from a job as engineer and when nothing seemed to be turning up for him in his field I was lucky enough to get a job as a fabric and quilting notion rep. We decided to do the job together and we started out traveling and calling on shops in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and even some shops in Canada (British Columbia.) Eventually we had enough lines that we were able to cut our territory down to just Oregon and Washington and we did this from 1997 to 2001. When my husband hurt his back and was no longer able to cart all the heavy suitcases of samples in and out of stores for me. Then my son-in-laws took over the business and I worked out of home for them till I retired in 2007. They still are in "the business."
8. I am a cancer survivor having had breast cancer in 1998 but knock on wood still cancer free.
9. I love to cook. As a young wife and college student I cooked for a fraternity one year and after doing that I think nothing of cooking for any size group. I did the food for my friend's daughters weddings (two summers in a row) a couple of years ago and it was great fun but not something that I want to do on a regular basis although she and I did get asked if we would like to do other people's weddings (she did all the decorating and table settings, etc.) we both declined......not enough money out there to do it except for people you really care about.
10. I knit and enjoy simple things like scarves and socks, hats etc. .....don't like the complicated stuff (again like sewing....no clothing please.)
11. Photography is a passion and I love to take lots and lots of pictures when traveling. Sometimes I don't think I pay enough attention to the guides because I'm always off wandering around taking pictures while my husband is asking lots of questions. We have gone to China (twice), Hong Kong (many times), Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Panama, Mexico, Columbia, Europe and have a trip to New Zealand planned for this spring.
12. I have been involved with computers since the mid 80's and first was on line back in 1996 so I should know more than I do about what I'm doing but it never cease to amaze me about what I don't know about the whole computer/internet scene. Right now I'm trying to teach my 88 year old mother how to email. I recently got a new computer and she has my old one and is bound and determined to master it. I'm bound and determined to remain patient despite the "Ground Hogs Day" (the Bill Murray movie) aspect of teaching her.
13. Live four acres of what use to be a Christmas tree farm and have fruit trees, berries, and lots and lots of flowers to take care of. I love flowers and photographing them, always looking for that perfect macro but never quite getting it. I also like to decorate around my quilts and use them for table cloths and throws around the house, my grand children think they make the best tents ever and I take lots of pictures of them too (my grand children and the quilts.) I love living in the country and having peace and quiet surrounding me but I will really miss going to New York a couple of times a year to get my dose of big city. (My daughter who recently moved her family to New Zealand use to live in Brooklyn.)
14. I use to have a room full of fabric, thanks to my job as a fabric sales rep and all the samples you get that you also can keep as well as the building of my stash for over 20 years. A couple of years ago I gave away about 75% of it and just kept my very favorite things Kaffe fabrics, Asian fabric, batik's, Amy Butler and other young bright designers, and of course reproductions of 1930's fabric. It was hard to let go but I had gotten so bogged down by the sheer volume of what I had that I couldn't function. I find I'm sewing more now and enjoying the design process a lot more with out all the fabric that wasn't "my style" clogging the works. There are lots of charities that make quilts for people in crisis and they love getting those fabrics that clog your thinking.
15. I like to read but it's hard to find as much time to do it what with FLICKR and all the other internet activities. I spend way to many hours a day on my computer and sadly my butt shows it. Even though I walk every day with my 88 year old mom I notice how much more I fill out that old chair than I did 52 years ago.
16. Wow I'm thinking I must not be all that unique cause I've sure run out of things to tell and hope who ever reads this hasn't fallen asleep on their keyboard!
Picture taken of me with my cat Bobo in 1955.....second picture today, same chair, same fabric but couldn''''t get my mom''''s cat Bobo #2 to join me.......I was tagged by Magikquilter <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/magikquilter/3221756653/">www.flickr.com/photos/magikquilter/3221756653/</a>
to tell 16 unique things about me.
1. This chair is unique because as you can see it was in my home as a child. My mother bought the pair of wing backed chairs in 1955 and just recently she gave me one of them for my sewing room and she still has the other in her living room. It is the original down cushion and the original olive green brocade. (Actually she tells me she had the chairs re-covered once in the 1970''''s.....the original color was a light cocoa brown brocade>)
2. I was raised in a very small town for the first 18 years of my life. Then off to college as an art major where I met my husband and married him at 19 and began the nomad life of a construction engineer''''s wife. We have so far moved 19 times in 46 years of marriage and lived in Washington, Oregon, California, South Carolina , Florida and Hawaii. For the last 11 years we have been in Oregon and that''''s the longest we''''ve ever lived in one house. (must be time to move?)
3. I count as my biggest accomplishment in life raising three incredible daughters who have given me 6 fabulous grand children and 3 great son-in-laws. Two are close and one recently moved to New Zealand so we now have a new part of the world to explore.
4. Growing up I always hated sewing....got my worst grades in those classes, wanted to be an artist but after I married my husband and transferred colleges there was no art major at his engineering school so I got my BS in Home Economics.
5. I always enjoyed crafts and anything that used color and design skills. In 1980 a friend talked me into taking a quilting class with her and I fell in love with sewing as it pertained to quilting. I think not having to make clothing was the key.
6. Over the years I have worked in several quilt shops in various parts of the country and made 100''''s of quilts, quilting has also brought me friends from all over the world.
7. In 1997 my husband was laid off from a job as engineer and when nothing seemed to be turning up for him in his field I was lucky enough to get a job as a fabric and quilting notion rep. We decided to do the job together and we started out traveling and calling on shops in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington and even some shops in Canada (British Columbia.) Eventually we had enough lines that we were able to cut our territory down to just Oregon and Washington and we did this from 1997 to 2001. When my husband hurt his back and was no longer able to cart all the heavy suitcases of samples in and out of stores for me. Then my son-in-laws took over the business and I worked out of home for them till I retired in 2007. They still are in "the business."
8. I am a cancer survivor having had breast cancer in 1998 but knock on wood still cancer free.
9. I love to cook. As a young wife and college student I cooked for a fraternity one year and after doing that I think nothing of cooking for any size group. I did the food for my friend''''s daughters weddings (two summers in a row) a couple of years ago and it was great fun but not something that I want to do on a regular basis although she and I did get asked if we would like to do other people''''s weddings (she did all the decorating and table settings, etc.) we both declined......not enough money out there to do it except for people you really care about.
10. I knit and enjoy simple things like scarves and socks, hats etc. .....don''''t like the complicated stuff (again like sewing....no clothing please.)
11. Photography is a passion and I love to take lots and lots of pictures when traveling. Sometimes I don''''t think I pay enough attention to the guides because I''''m always off wandering around taking pictures while my husband is asking lots of questions. We have gone to China (twice), Hong Kong (many times), Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Panama, Mexico, Columbia, Europe and have a trip to New Zealand planned for this spring.
12. I have been involved with computers since the mid 80''''s and first was on line back in 1996 so I should know more than I do about what I''''m doing but it never cease to amaze me about what I don''''t know about the whole computer/internet scene. Right now I''''m trying to teach my 88 year old mother how to email. I recently got a new computer and she has my old one and is bound and determined to master it. I''''m bound and determined to remain patient despite the "Ground Hogs Day" (the Bill Murray movie) aspect of teaching her.
13. Live four acres of what use to be a Christmas tree farm and have fruit trees, berries, and lots and lots of flowers to take care of. I love flowers and photographing them, always looking for that perfect macro but never quite getting it. I also like to decorate around my quilts and use them for table cloths and throws around the house, my grand children think they make the best tents ever and I take lots of pictures of them too (my grand children and the quilts.) I love living in the country and having peace and quiet surrounding me but I will really miss going to New York a couple of times a year to get my dose of big city. (My daughter who recently moved her family to New Zealand use to live in Brooklyn.)
14. I use to have a room full of fabric, thanks to my job as a fabric sales rep and all the samples you get that you also can keep as well as the building of my stash for over 20 years. A couple of years ago I gave away about 75% of it and just kept my very favorite things Kaffe fabrics, Asian fabric, batik''''s, Amy Butler and other young bright designers, and of course reproductions of 1930''''s fabric. It was hard to let go but I had gotten so bogged down by the sheer volume of what I had that I couldn''''t function. I find I''''m sewing more now and enjoying the design process a lot more with out all the fabric that wasn''''t "my style" clogging the works. There are lots of charities that make quilts for people in crisis and they love getting those fabrics that clog your thinking.
15. I like to read but it''''s hard to find as much time to do it what with FLICKR and all the other internet activities. I spend way to many hours a day on my computer and sadly my butt shows it. Even though I walk every day with my 88 year old mom I notice how much more I fill out that old chair than I did 52 years ago.
16. Wow I''''m thinking I must not be all that unique cause I''''ve sure run out of things to tell and hope who ever reads this hasn''''t fallen asleep on their keyboard!
Tick. All to often in life I find myself rushing from one thing to another. Rarely do I take the time to just sit down and enjoy things around me. There is so much to enjoy and be grateful for right now and right here. So why all this planning for things, scheduling, buying, slaving, struggling.... life is precious, and each moment counts. Each brief second wasted is a second that never comes back. The clock will never be the same again. Tick. In the time it has taken you to read this, 2,000 mosquitos have died. Each of them could have given you a perfect macro shot. Tick. The clouds have shifted noticeable on the sky, and the beautiful figures there are no more. Tick. Slow down, enjoy life and catch the moments, because your lifetime is made up of unique, individual moments which never comes back.
Taken for Active Assignment Weekly: Ephemeral
Assignment
Photograph the ephemeral: document the passing of things in life whose nature is transient and/or even short-lived. Despite the article I have linked to here, the subject matter does not at all have to relate to nature.
restrictions: Because of the potential similarities of this assignment to a previous assignment Time Passages, please avoid time-lapse, time-sequenced, or long exposure photographs.
dare: Compose an image that evokes an emotional response from your audience.
What it took
The assignment didn't mention anything about Photoshop, so this is actually a composite of 3 pictures:
1) a close up of my wrist watch
2) a picture of me holding a soup bowl
3) the picture of the clouds
1) and 2) were taken right after each other with the flash in the same position and the camera on a tripod so I knew the angle of view and angle of the light were constant. This should help ensure that the shadows looks genuine. For 3) I just took a photo where the sun was on the left hand side of the image.
1) was cut so all the background was deleted. I then in Photoshop duplicated the image into another layer. Added the blur. By now I had a blurred image with a sharp image underneath. I then added a layer mask to the blurred layer. On the layer mask, I painted where the hands of the watch were, which revealed the sharp version from below. The benefit of using a layer mask is that it's non-destructive. Paint black reveals the underlying layer. If you reveal to much, you just cover it with white which lets the top layer show again.
2) Pasted the completed clock in over the top of the soup bowl. The reason for having a soup bowl in the first place was to make sure my fingers were placed the way they are when you hold on to something. Applied a layer mask to the newly pasted-in clock and painted where the fingers were supposed to be on top of the watch (i.e., this removed the clock from these areas and let the fingers show through).
3) pasted it all onto a suitable picture of clouds. Again added a layer mask to hide bits and pieces such as hair from arms which were sticking out into the clouds.
Tick. In the time it has taken you to read this WIT, another unique species of flora or fauna has become extinct. Time to catch the moment and enjoy life.