Woke up feeling pretty horrible. Tested positive for Covid. Great. Hopefully I will get through it.

Here is your Macro Monday.

Happy Macro Monday

One of the flowers of the bouquet that I bought last week.

Snowy and cold days are perfect for your macro and close up photography.

Thanks for your visit and comments, much appreciated!🙋‍♀️

Please spill your macro secrets!

I have gotten some wonderful advice from a few Flickr friends on macro tips but I am still struggling. My camera is a Nikon D-3100 and the only lenses I have are an 18-55mm and a 70-300mm. I also have an old tripod. Ideally I know a macro lens would be best but not in my budget right now. I want to know what is in your bag of tricks to achieve those amazing shots I’ve seen! Also, to crop or not to crop?

And if anyone has advice on the best butterfly attracting flowers, I’d love to know. I greatly appreciate any tips to help improve on my nemesis, “the macro shot”. LOL

Have a great day Flickr friends! Tina and the Puglets. xo

I would like to thank all of you that have taken the time to view and comment on my photos, it is very much appreciated. Constructive criticism and tips on how to improve my novice photography skills are always welcomed.

What The World Needs Now

(Ce dont Le Monde A Besoin Maintenant)

Petals Love, Huawei Smartphone Series

A Common Mistake of Macro Photography

Have you ever found that your macro or close-up photos were blur and not sharp enough? No matter how well or steady you had done you had never gotten the sharpness you want. One common mistake is that you were getting your camera too close to your subject. Check your lens for the minimum allowable focal distance.

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EXPLORED Nov 8, 2010

Houston, Texas.

Our backyard

Nikon D700 + Nikkor 105mm f/2.8

Bigger is better

It is so nice to walk around with your macro lens in the forest. This snail shell was just in the sunlight next the the mushroom and lit up. Just that little extra :-)

Enjoy your weekend and many thanks for your favs and comments, much appreciated

For as many retired folk that I see here on Flickr, I don't suppose a pill organizer is going to be a unique subject. Among my circle of geezer friends a lot of us, myself included, use one of these as a daily calendar. The three compartments span a distance of 70mm. The photo is a focus stack of eight images stitched together with Affinity Photo. I used an adapted Canon FD 100mm f4 at f4. Have a fun, productive and creative time making your Macro Mondays photos and as always thank you to anyone that stops here to view, fave and/or compose a comment.

So, that’s enough of your macro, close-up, diving flower, bugs life waffle and nonsense, what you need is a damn good shower as all this WARM weather can be a bit of a DRAG. Give me some THUNDER and LIGHTNING!

Actually, I'd prefer some prolonged drizzle to soak the land rather than flash floods and disruption.

youtu.be/NDQ9dNzfi1E

The 10/11/21 Macro Mondays theme is Side lit.

These are the petals of a pine cone that my dog dropped at my feet as if to say, "here's your Macro Mondays subject"...☺

Muffling its laughter while it watches me crawl commando style on the tundra, this male White-tailed Ptarmigan glances over towards me, confident that despite the multitude of background elements, it is well hidden behind its cloak of invisibility. It’s not often you get a chance to use your macro lens to take a picture of an unrestrained bird in its natural element.

The smallest of the North American grouse, white-tailed Ptarmigan are the only year-round avian resident of these alpine areas. Their plumage turns pure white in the winter, and feathers cover their legs and toes (as seen here) for insulation.

California State University

Fullerton

Biology Greenhouse Complex

Thank you, Steve, for letting me use your macro lens!

I made this picture, with my 100 mm 2.8 macro lens..:) It gives a such of sharpness to the details. If you have possibility try your macro lenses for these kind of bigger things, the DOF is unbelievable works, too.

California State University

Fullerton

Biology Greenhouse Complex

Thank you, Steve, for letting me use your macro lens!

A flower found at Schoepfle Garden in Birmingham, Ohio.

www.loraincountymetroparks.com/sgarden.htm

The saying that you get sillier as you get older really rang true this morning. Fancy leaviing your macro lens and tripod behind on a foggy day like this. The birds had too much sense to get out of bed, and one was left trying to salvage something out of the morning with a heavy telephoto lens on a monopod.

Ancient gum trees on Callum Brae. Australian Capital Territory, June, 2015.

Is there a better way to start the day than sitting in your backyard in the early morning with your first cup of tea, your macro lens and enjoying the quiet and the beautiful flowers growing all around you?

I hope all of you have a fantastic long weekend :)

Thanks for viewing my photo, comments are always welcome and appreciated.

Bloodroot flower (Sanguinaria canadensis) along the floor of the woods at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center. These blossoms typically last a single day so bring your macro lens when they are popping.

come and linky your macro pictures with the muses.

Beautiful day-flying small purple and gold moth (Pyrausta aurata).

Single shot at back garden.

Make the most of your Macro Monday!

While it may not seem like the most exciting thing to do, photographing a dead bug or spider that has naturally passed away is a good way to sharpen your Macro Skills. (Just don't EVER hurt them or kill them for a photo, please!)

🎥 Youtube Video Tutorial Included! 🎥

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwDCqoHmx4M&t

--Equipment Used for Photo--

▷ Neewer Tripod - amzn.to/2XMJOqF

▷ Velbon Macro Slider - amzn.to/31SZIRJ

▷ Canon 5DS R - amzn.to/31yN61O

▷ Canon MP-E 65mm Macro Lens - amzn.to/33Ms8iM

▷ Yaetek 6x6" Scissor Jack - amzn.to/2PFXlvH

▷ Neewer 9x9" SoftBox - Currently Unavailable (substitute amzn.to/3afRd6F)

▷ Neewer Speedlite - amzn.to/2PEDltd

▷ Yongnuo Speedlites - amzn.to/3kAojmz

▷ Opteka Sync Cord - Currently unavailable but any will work amzn.to/3iqRE11

▷ Moss - amzn.to/3isuirL

Close-up macro photograph of a bee on a flower

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Device : Huawei P30 lite + yashica 38mm

Dop: 19/12/24

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Macro Mondays - Cloth/Textile

When you try hard to have a good photograph for your Macro Mondays challenge...

LACPIXEL - 2017

Fluidr

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What do you do when you find a dead fly on your windowsill? Get your macro lens out, of course!

Taken at RSPB Rye Meads July 2016.

Thanks Stephen for letting me try your macro lens.

The title is a new macro technique I am considering patenting.

If you leave your macro lens at home (like I did) and all you have is a telephoto, do this:

Ask a passer-by if you could lean the camera on his/her shoulder to alleviate camera shake when trying to focus on a pea-sized plant at 300 yards.

After about eight rejections, a couple of chases, one or two screams of "help, police" and a black eye, the ninth usually agrees.

Then crop the result to hell.

Patent applied for. Dublin April 2010

This week's theme was a lot more fun that last week's, and I have a few shots I've had to decide from. This one, however, had the most 'textile' in it, so wins and becomes my entry.

I love being able to take a shot that actually encapsulates a feeling as well as being alright to look at. Every time I look at this, I feel warm and comfortable - like the little fella is wrapping himself up tight against the world and all the scary things out there.

He's a little tired, a little cold, a little afraid - but that's okay now, because he's wrapped up and safe. Probably has a book or a feel good movie going on as well.

So for those of you feeling fragile, wrap yourself up and get better. And for the lucky sods who aren't, enjoy your Macro Monday!

1. Nature, 2. One Cool Dude, 3. Sunset 020306, 4. Boise Idaho Sunset, 5. Natures colors, 6. Another day gone by, 7. Just Clouds, 8. Flower,

9. Untouched Clouds, 10. Two Headed Goose, 11. Frost 2, 12. Clouds and Trees, 13. The Goose, 14. Sun Rays, 15. Tonights Sunset, 16. Fire in the Sky,

17. trees and clouds, 18. In the Park, 19. Squirrel, 20. The duck, 21. Great Blue Heron, 22. Early Sunset, 23. Bridge over the Snake River, 24. Backdoor Sunset 2,

25. Reflection pond, 26. Smokey the Cat, 27. Love Birds, 28. My First HDR, 29. Colorful Sky, 30. Heads, 31. Yellow Reflections, 32. Little Bird,

33. No Skinny Dipping, 34. Smile, 35. Idaho Sunset, 36. Natures Wrath, 37. sunset layers, 38. Flying duck, 39. Boise Train Depot, 40. Reflections,

41. Black Bird Gray Sky

PLEASE PUT A NOTE ON YOUR FAV PIC :)

Using your macro setting on a subject or part of a subject and go out of

that limitation box.

All you need is a miniature figurine, a flashlight, your macro lens and some space on the kitchen counter. Ahhh, the fun you can have on a rainy afternoon. :)

With the need for waking early comes socially acceptable stimulants.

Mine is a dark roast coffee with sugar and cream to cut the bitterness of the dark roast.

It's a turbulent cycle of sweetening and smoothing the bite of the dark roasted beans.

So, I'll take the cream in my coffee with some sugar also please.

Photos posted for this week's macromonday group challenge, "cream."

Get your macro lens dusted off and give us your best shot on Monday. Catch the latest theme in the discussions

Macro photography. The Phalaenopsis belongs to the family of orchids and includes a variety of exotic species with beautiful blossom - especially from close up. ;)

What are you photographing with your macro lens?

Macro Monday Theme: Find the sweet spot of your macro lens and photograph something sweet.

This was an educational exercise, as I had never stepped through the entire set of F-stops on my Zeiss lens before.

HMM and have a great week!

Macro Mondays theme. Monday, October 17: Edge

"Next week’s theme is one of those simple yet complex words. It has just 4 letters but this little word has a wide variety of meanings to inspire you for your macro photography this week.

Edge can be any of the following: a line of intersection, a border, a cutting blade, an incisive, penetrating quality, the part away from the middle, the point where things begin, an advantage or element of superiority, to trim or shape, to move or push gradually, to beat by a small margin, or having audacity or zest. I am sure you can think of all kinds of clever and unusual ways to express EDGE so your photos will have…well, an edge."

Sony Alpha A7

M42 Soviet macro lens MC Volna-9 50mm f/2.8

Reference : allphotolenses.com/lenses/item/c_273.html

Reference (french) : www.picturz.fr/fr/post/15.volna-9-mc

Presentation / Aperture preset system : www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uurArGAZRA

Flickr group : www.fluidr.com/groups/volna-9_macro_lens/interesting

May your macro Monday be a good one.. Lensbaby Edge 80mm/macro mode with extension tubes.

Soap bubbles in the process of freezing are fleeting, enigmatic, and almost magical subjects. View large!

Of course, ice is colourless. The colour here was part of an experiment using semi-random coloured filters in front of the bright flashlight that illuminated the bubble from behind. The filter was created by gluing squares of polarizing film in opposition to one another on either side of a cheap piece of plastic. The plastic was from a box of cotton swabs, but a CD case cover works just as well.

This is what you would call “dark field illumination”, a term that people looking through microscopes might recognize. The light source is behind the bubble, just out of the frame on top, angled down. This allows for the full effect of the light, but creates a dark background. If the light source was a little lower, it would take some of the magic away from the bubble.

These bubbles freeze solid in a few seconds. I’ll be doing more experiments with them in the coming week when temperatures drop again. Wish me luck! :)

For my work with snowflakes, visit skycrystals.ca/ - winter is an excellent time to take out your macro lens!

The Paul Simon Anthology (disk 1) - Kodachrome

(youtu.be/N4ltLp30KVs)

Transparency taken in 1972

If you are interested how this was done:

Take a photo of a white piece of paper with your phone and then display it. You might have to zoom it a bit to get a full white screen. Place the slide on top of the screen and then photograph it with your macro lens. You may need to use a tripod to get it properly squared and prevent camera shake. Crop to suite.

Have great week my friends!

Explore #10 (Highest Position)

Check out my drum video that I have posted on Youtube

Taken with my Sony a300 with my Tamron SP AF60mm f/2 DI II LD (IF) 1:1 Macro Lens

Thanks so much for your support!!

Please also consider joining my group Flickr Bronze Trophy

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Explore, Jan 25, 2008 #300

So much color that is trapped inside a flower bud, that when we see them in full bloom we don't believe their amazing beauty.

Macro photograph has a few challenges like the wind, and lets not forget the insects and birds that not always want to share them with us. A much "safer" approach doing macros is a photo cube that will give you the freedom to move and accommodate your subjects, you just have to remember that your lights get hot in no time, trust me, I know ;)

But whatever you decide while you do your macros, take your time, enjoy, and then be ready to be amazed by the fruit of your hard work!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=__VQX2Xn7tI

Enjoy your weekend!

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Photography is my passion, and nature photography is my favorite.

I have been in Explore for more that a hundred times, and it is an awesome experience to have your photos showcased in such a special way.

I'm in many groups, and I only add my photos to them if they are not private.

I thank your for coming today, for leaving a comment, and make a favorite of yours this photo, (if that is the case) thanks again!

The best part of this forum is the contacts and friends that I have made over the years, that have the same passion for this art that is called photography!

Martha.

Thanks for those words of encouragement..YOURE THE BEST in term of your macro shot my talented flickr buddy!

For Hilmy because his macro and close up picture is fantastic. Your macro/close up picture really an inspiration for a beginner like me..thank you so much :-)

One possibly for Macro Mondays subject Imperfection. "Find a crack, chip, blemish, stain, tear, ding, scratch or other defect, and use it as the subject of your macro work of art.

If, were it not for the macro view, the imperfection would not normally be noticed, even better".

This little watch was my late Mum's. I had noticed one scratch when I started using it after a couple of years and a new battery.

The macro showed me a couple more scratches, and a slight chip which I certainly wouldn't have seen :-(

Photographed on a foil sweet wrapper, natural light plus a torch. (Face is 1" across).

The Brief: use only natural light for your macro.

This Salvia leucantha is backlit by the low morning sun. It's now late autumn here, so the sun is not super strong and did not wash out the colour.

Drops on Peony

Inspired by all you good folk who are using your macro extension tubes to produce stunning work. Stuck a set of them on the end of my macro lens and tried to take a shot of my own eye, no easy task due to focussing issues. Also, my eyes are pale blue mostly with speckles of yellow and gold in them, don't quite know what happened to the blue here, it's emphasised the yellow ring more, maybe had the flash too close :o)

No MM group for me anymore, tired of their rejections, so this is my macro shot for this morning. Please don't comment using that group's name.

Honestly, I was going to use this shot and try that unmentionable group once again this morning, after I saw a wonderful shot from one of my Flickr friends (see comments). However, I "assumed" the theme was "Mustard" -- hence all the effort I put into this shot. Ha! Ha! Read the theme right before posting ... NOT MUSTARD! My poor brain ...

You see, I wasn't supposed to use that group again anyway! Thank You, Jesus, to You be the glory!

May God bless you all through the coming week. And may all your macro shots be tiny! It is Monday after all ...

Congratulations to the Community and Thank You to Janet.

Imagine that you are blowing out the candles. What are your Macro Monday wishes?....

Mi primera experiencia con el macro.Muchas gracias a mi paciente profesor, Diego! Muchas gracias a Liki por prestarme su macro!

My first experience with macro. Thank you very much for the patient teacher ... Diego! Liki to thank you very much for lending your macro!