July 2013 - Level 2 photography assignment - Macro photography

[Marko]

Hi members!

The level 2 assignment is Macro photography (done with a macro lens or extension tubes or reversing ring or just as close as you can with your best close-up lens) and should be posted here in this thread.

OK then - who will post first?

[Zukie]

Found this little guy on my screen door yesterday.17454

[Jason]

Cool colors!

[Jason]

I've been meaning to get out and shoot these in our front yard--this assignment gave me a good excuse!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7418/9198088938_c5e456c22c_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdneely/9198088938/)

[Marko]

nice start jason - i like the bw

[Marko]

nice start zukie.

[Runmonty]

Very nice Jason. Nice angle.

Here is my first for the month. My watch.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7394/9197347771_e95503d629_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56001877@N04/9197347771/)
Wristwatch (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56001877@N04/9197347771/) by runmonty (http://www.flickr.com/people/56001877@N04/), on Flickr

[Iguanasan]

What a cool looking bug. You must have cropped in quite a bit on the image to make it look this close up.

[Jason]

Nice detail, RM!

[Marko]

Nice detail and really nice watch!

[JAS_Photo]

Looking good!

[Crashcat]

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[missyinmuskoka]

Macro fun with food colour and water17458

[theantiquetiger]

I don't have much of macro equipment, so this is about the best I can do.

***Now its off to kill the little *******s!!! They are killing my flower beds***

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2810/9201739925_99428a08bb_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/theantiquetiger/9201739925/)
worms-2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/theantiquetiger/9201739925/) by Theantiquetiger (http://www.flickr.com/people/theantiquetiger/), on Flickr

[Jason]

Crashcat, what a creepy little guy!
Missy, I love those colors, and one heck of a job freezing that moment!
AT, really nice shot, sorry to hear they're trashing your garden.

[Marko]

that's creepy crashcat!
VERY soothing image Missy - I dig the colors!
AT - Good on you for capturing the scene! bad on you for killing your subjects after photographing them. (I'm a freely admitted softie ).

[Iguanasan]

Little Fly on a Leaf

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Not sure what kind of fly it is but he was rather small, I would guess about 3 or 4 millimeters in size. Caught him by flipping my 50mm around backwards as one of my makeshift macros.

[Marko]

VERY cool one iggy - Love it.

[Jim Scrimger]

1746117462An antique Kodak moment, and reasonably close flower shot.

[JAS_Photo]

This was taken with my 85 mm micro lens but without a tripod. :(

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3802/9290869410_e4a7041d92_b.jpg

[JAS_Photo]

And one more.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7327/9290860240_72c2de8bd9_b.jpg

[Runmonty]

Loving the variety here so far. Here is another. This time a corkscrew. Lighting from below horizontal gave some funky reflections that I liked.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/9292285542_ca9d987000_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56001877@N04/9292285542/)
corkscrew (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56001877@N04/9292285542/) by runmonty (http://www.flickr.com/people/56001877@N04/), on Flickr

[Mike Bons]

I don't have a macro lens so this is a reversed 50mm 1.4 handholding the camera (5Dc) and the lens against the mount (a little tricky) and 1 off camera flash.

http://mikebons.zenfolio.com/img/s9/v94/p1632264476-4.jpg

http://mikebons.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v114/p1852974653-4.jpg

[Postman]

heres my share...

Salute!!


http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt32/chefrandy/D800%20with%20vivitar%2090mm%202013kliks/DSC_5569.jpg (http://s595.photobucket.com/user/chefrandy/media/D800%20with%20vivitar%2090mm%202013kliks/DSC_5569.jpg.html)

[Jason]

A drippy hydrangea

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3829/9329543735_3f584b0c51_c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdneely/9329543735/)

[Marko]

Quite like that flower shot Jim.
Strong colours Jas even with no tripod.
RM - that's way cool. Well made.
You've chosen interesting angles Mike bons - Nice play.
Nice and sharp Postman - way cool.
Lovely image and bluish tones jason, well done on the comp and the drops.

[Doug L]

Lots of nice images! I especially enjoy the watch face detail, the pastel tones in the flower with a hand-held reversed lens, and the composition of the drippy hydrangea. Here are some images I took a few days ago.

Blue crystal wine glass.
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Slice of a geode.
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Ant head (I think) in amber.
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[mbrager]

Macros are fun. The actual area of this photo is about 1 inch by 3/4 inch.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2858/9398932050_2bcf36747d_c.jpg