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Stained Fork |
Got myself excited to shoot some detail shots over the weekend as it was very gloomy and rainy outdoors. Here are some of what I was able to take last Saturday night. How I did it at the end of my post. :D
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Don't Fret | | Pegged |
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Glitz! | | Fedora Stitch |
Here's my favorite shot of the night:
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Cookie |
I made my bunch of cookies as my midnight snack after photographing it as it really made me hungry.
Sunday, blessed me with a slight overcast afternoon with a little sun peeping through the clouds. Since the rains have stopped since morning, little critters were out too and so was I. :D
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Crab Spider |
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Big Red Eyes |
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I'm Hairy |
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Red Bulb | | White Veins |
The leaf shot reminds me of science class where we used to peek into a microscope to look in closer on leaf structure though this is nowhere near as a microscope photo.
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Cereals??? |
I just found this interesting.
The How.
I used an extension tube coupled with my 85mm with the shots that were produced on Saturday night and then with my defective-AF kit lens for the Sunday afternoon session.
The extension tubes that I used were the dumb cheap ones. It's really like a tube except that it has mounts for the lens and the camera body to be coupled together. Using the extension tubes meant physical manual focus. I said physical is because it's either I or the subject moves forward or backward to get the part I wanted in focus as this type deals with really narrow DOF (depth-of-field).
I used a flash with a diffuser cup with varying light intensity and distance to light the subject. The built-in flash can also be used but I wanted to control the direction of the light thus I used an external flash. Another tip, I used my maximum flash sync speed (1/200 sec for my camera) to eliminate camera shake and get photos that are sharp enough.
The physical manual focus was really a challenge but my love for macro has just been revived! :)
Cheers!
The rest of the other photos are in this album:
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Brown Flower (Chico flower) |