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Sheet music to "Back In the U.S.S.R.". Part of a dabble into reverse macro photography.
Tech info:
Camera:Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Lens: Canon EF 85mm f1.8 USM (reversed)
Shutter: 1/125
Aperture: Approximately f2
Lighting: Ambient, large french doors on a cloudy day.
Post processing: Edited using Adobe PhotoShop Elements 6.0 and Nik Color Efex Pro (Wacom Edition)
Canon EOS 50D
Taken: June 29, 2010, 7:29:08PM
Aperture: F/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec
Focal Length: 50mm
ISO: 100
Lens: 50mm/1.8
Reverse Macro
Edited in Paint Shop Pro Photo X2
Reverse macro again for the win! This was Gemma's fiver. I don't really have my own money anymore! It either goes on bills or more bills!! Welcome to adult life, mortgages and responsibility.
This is a double lens reverse macro shot taken with my Nikon 70-300mm VR mounted on the D80, with a male-to-male 67mm-52mm ring used to reverse mount my Nikon f/1.4 50mm to the front of the 70-300mm. I use the SB-800 off camera to get enough light. This is the unedited JPEG image, straight out of the camera. If you think this is an extreme close up, try viewing the detail in the 10M original image.
Day 174 / 365 - 23/6/10
Feather and Water
Wasn't feeling too inspired, and I wasn't feeling like my water drop shots were turning out quite right, so I decided to try out another reverse lens macro. So, I sprayed the feather with some fine mist, put my broken 50mm f/1.8 (that I've since replaced) reversed on the front of my macro lens. The nice thing about the Sigma 105mm macro is that the Nikon 50mm lens fits just perfectly inside the metal lens hood. So I pop a few rubber bands over it and I'm good to shoot.
For lighting, I put a SB-600 with the Orbis underneath it.
By the way, focusing is a bitch like this.
P.S. Thanks for the well wishes yesterday :-)
I managed to get a close-up macro of this bumble bee which was very kind to pose for me for a good while before flying off. I've done plenty of macros before, but the close-ups (>1:1) have always been of dead insects.
It's much nicer to be able to capture a living bee (compared to this dead one), but there are significantly greater challenges. With a subject that is constantly on the move, the idea of being able to capture shots to stack is something of an impossibility.
The nature of the flower that the bee is on means that it blends very much into the colours of the flower - a bit of a shame, but unavoidable.
This image is from a single shot, processed from raw. A single strobe was used mounted just to the side of the camera and diffused.
This variegated yarn color is called "Chocolate Cupcake", and it seems to have a lot of strawberry filling what with the lovely pinks! I teamed it up with a burgundy tweed yarn that I'm calling Berry Sauce...because I find chocolate cake and berry sauce to be an infinitely satisfying combination :))
This guy joined us during our Christmas celebration and I had to get a photo of him.
Shot with a reversed zuiko 28mm.
Not sure on the species.
Finally figured out reverse macro. Success! I tried before, but missed a step or two. My mother gave me this ring, originally found in a pawn shop, and worn for years before she got a special 20 year anniversary ring made.
I don't know which species of Drosophila this fly is. Despite spending 3 years studying Drosophila, I never needed to be able to tell species apart.
I've not done a stack for a little while, and thought I would give one a go, as all the necessary adaptors have arrived to allow me to use the EL-Nikkor 50mm enlarger lens.
There is a lot which has not worked for this image. I had wanted to try a stack moving the rear standard of the bellows unit, but thought for the purposes of comparison, I would try two separate stacks, one from moving the rear standard, and the other from moving the entire unit, which I have been doing until this point. This image was done moving the entire unit, at 4:1. I certainly missed a number of sharp areas, which is a real shame. The lighting in the image taken moving the rear standard was a little off, so I have not bothered processing it.
Heavily cropped from the original, as the main body of the fly was badly damaged during its capture.
I caught another fly recently, and decided to have a go at photographing it, from a side-on position, rather than the more front-on view I had last time.
As a subject, this fly is (in my opinion) not as interesting as the first.
This stack only involved 16 images, and at some point, I must have slipped slightly, and moved the rig too much, as there is a very obvious band where the focus is off. A bit of a shame, but then flies are pretty easy to come by.
This image has been taken at about 4:1.
Stack of 50 images. Taken with Nikon D800, Edelkrone Action Module (for stepper motor movement), and stacked in Zerene stacking software (pMax). images. Taken with Nikon D800, Edelkrone Action Module (for stepper motor movement), and stacked in Zerene stacking software (pMax).
Reverse mounted Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II, 1:1 magnification, natural lighting
Found this mama after overturning a rock in the landscaping while pulling some weeds. She was happy to pose for some pics, as she wasn't moving too quickly while carrying her egg sac around (the big white blob in the pic is the egg sac, attached to the back of the spider). She's about an inch or an inch and a half in diameter including the legs.
Reverse mount macro shot with a Vivitar 28-70mm zoom on a Canon 600D. For a quick how to see my blog at: teach-me-photo.blogspot.co.nz/2012/02/using-zoom-for-macr...
This was the 3rd photo i decided to take, as you can see on quite an angle.
Again i took around 5 pictures to focus stack using the focusing ring on the lens and through photoshop textured them and layered them before adding a colour shadow of blue with a hint of yellow to help the eyes really stand out...
This picture was taken at F11, focus stacked from around 5-6 images with a 28mm F2.8 FD lens reversed onto my Canon 550d with a reverse ring.
Lighting was externally done with a lamp and flash at half power.
Thanks for looking once again.
taken with 28mm reverse carl zeiss lense on ebay extension tubes.
didnt realise how filthy the lense was or how hard it is to focus at this magnification.
This is a double lens reverse macro shot taken with my Nikon 70-300mm VR mounted on the D80, with a male-to-male 67mm-52mm ring used to reverse mount my Nikon f/1.4 50mm to the front of the 70-300mm. I use the SB-800 off camera to get enough light. The post processing was straightening and cropping. Because the zoom lens uses a 67mm filter size and the 50mm uses a 52mm filter size, the close end of the zoom range means the vignetting and black ring that you can see even in this cropped version. (At the far end of the zoom there are no problems with vignetting, as you can see in some of my unedited double lens macro shots.)
You can see the 50mm shot of the electric toothbrush I used here.
decided to try my hand at reverse macro.
i attached my crappy sigma 70-300 to the camera and held my canon 50 1.4 up to it.
What you're looking at is an unedited photo of some of the pixels on my 40" Sony Bravia V2500 LCD TV.
This is a double lens reverse macro shot taken with my Nikon 70-300mm VR mounted on the D80, with a male-to-male 67mm-52mm ring used to reverse mount my Nikon f/1.4 50mm to the front of the 70-300mm. I use the SB-800 off camera to get enough light. This is the unedited JPEG image, straight out of the camera.
In order to get this effect, I mounted the camera on my cheap, cheap tripod, used the wireless remote to trigger a 8 second exposure, and with the f/40 of the 300mm combined with the f1.4 of the reversed 50mm, this is what I got. I have no idea what was on TV, I was just hoping whatever Yayoi was watching would have a good mix of values for the specific pixels I was photographing.
I completed wonderful reverse macro shots of The E Ring on Sunday - sunlight works best.
It has all my hopes and loves in one simple shape!
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Larger version has a lot of noise, since it was taken using a reversed 18-55mm stock Canon lens by hand. No zooming/cropping done on this image, only played around a bit with brightness/saturation in PS4. Feel free to comment.
Yesterday this tick bit my puppy, mojo, on the front leg-pit(idk if that's what it's called, the dog version of the armpit lol). The skin was loose there and apparently dead, as it just came right off when I removed the tick. Mojo didn't seem to feel it much.
I'm not sure if the indentations on the back are from the tweezers when I plopped him into the lysterine(that's what caused the skin to turn blue, I couldn't find the rubbing alcohol), or if that's just a natural indentation. But yeah, mouth wash killed it in less than a minute.
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reversed manual lens(nikon kit lens) on a canon 30d set to f/11, used focus stacking in cs5 as this was three different focal planes. DOF was hair thin even at f/11.
this shot is taken using EF 18-55mm kit lens at 55mm and a reversed EF 50mm F1.8 II which i just bought recently.
my first few reverse macro shot, quite badly done, due to my shakey hands. really fun technique, now i dont need to buy a macro lens ;)
anyway, this picture means quite alot in my opinion, its like we sin like no body's business like we press the sine button on the calculator, and yeah that doesnt make us any better.