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Just happened to see this fellow while I was waiting to shoot the sunset. Couldn’t stop my curiosity how translucent this damselfly is! Don’t get bored on my back lighting obsession yet.
Macro Monday's and the theme of "Translucent".
While keeping an eye out for a subject suitable for this week I found a small ornament of a dragon in a local charity shop.
As was stated in the theme description a good way of lighting translucent subjects is from behind, the choice on how to do this is key though. Do I use a direct light to highlight it or use a light to light the background only and have that light filter back through my subject?
I did consider finding a toy from my son's room to suit the subject such as a castle but in the end I decided to use a small sparkler to do this as a fiery background would suit a dragon.
This was working but an issue I had to overcome was the dragons eyes. This part of him was not translucent so the eyes would remain in shadow. In the end I used a second camera and set the pop up flash into manual mode and fired this at the dragon from an angle to light his eyes but not the background. This happened with all the lights turned out and I quite liked the result.
For this week's #Macromonday submission for the theme #translucent, I decided to shine a little light on the unassuming lemon slice. I dressed it up a little bit with some oil and water to give it a little "pizzaz" and backlit with my remote speedlight and CTO gel.
Sunlight passing through a petunia.
Macro Mondays: Translucent
The image is just under 3 inches in width.
A small perfume bottle and a string of pearls. The potion of the bottle shown is 3" tall. The pattern in the glass makes it translucent rather than clear. The reflection of the pearls in the cap, was a happy accident.
Seeglas & Murmel
Seaglass & Marble
Für "Macro Mondays"
Thema "Translucent"
am 20.07.2026
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I wasn't sure if I have anything translucent for today's theme. So while picking up some stuff at the mall, I went to Diaso and fragrance bottle at SGD 2.18 for photo taking :)
I place the bottle lying down sideways and placed a few LED bulbs behind to create this.
If you like this, have a look at the other post: flic.kr/p/2sq2CJL
A further investigation of translucency. These freesia petals were taken behind blue stained glass mainly.
Translucent Bloom. © Copyright 2023 G Dan Mitchell.
Light glows thorugh the petals of a spring blossom.
The scale of my usual photograph subjects generally ranges between the whole landscape and something smaller but still larger… than I am. But Patty, the other photographer in the household, has made a specialty of photographing vey small things, often flowers, and often so close that we see details rather than the whole thing. I suppose that this was bound to rub off, and I just realized that I have a series of such photographs on my desktop ready to post.
I made this photograph on one of our periodic forays to a large garden on the San Francisco Peninsula. At first I wasn’t thrilled with the light — we were expecting some lingering fog and soft light, but instead the sun was out. But I found that if I got in really close to some of these flowers that were in just the right light… it was possible to find that “less than all of it” perspective on them.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
I shot this image in an Irish cornfield....I loved its' translucent beauty and the fact that it was blowing in the breeze.
Macro Monday theme today is translucent. This is the base of a small stubby screwdriver. It used to belong to my dad. I keep it with my photographic stuff as it's perfect for tightening the screw of those quick release plates. HMM!
Some translucent objects like mat glass, bugle (tiny transparent jar is just a container for them :)), stones etc. on the translucent paper
My mother apparently used to walk for hours along a smooth Atlantic Coast beach. I inherited some of her translucent tiny shells. Here’s to you, mum.
These fill a container about 4 cm/1.57 inches across. See previous photo or first comment for measurement.
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Always try to make eye contact, they say. I think I nailed it here...
Manipontonia psamathe is a species of pontoniine shrimp in the family Palaemonidae, commonly known as the translucent gorgonian shrimp or black coral shrimp, characterized by its small size—reaching up to 2.5 cm in length—and its translucent body adapted for life in coral reef environments. The coloration of M. psamathe is predominantly translucent, enhancing camouflage among the branching structures of gorgonian corals, with two distinct red lines running along the carapace and abdomen for subtle patterning. (Grokipedia)
Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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