Posted in Macro, Photographers on Nov 14th, 2008 No Comments »
The Big Picture has a fantastic set of photo micrographs: Peering into the micro world.
These were done with a scanning electron microscope. Dang, I gotta get me one of them there scanning electron microscopes, these are fantastic. Those pollen are killer amazing as is the surface of the black walnut leaf. Wow.
Posted in Macro, Photo Sites on Sep 23rd, 2008 8 Comments »
25 Beautiful Macro Photography Shots
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Posted in Macro, Photo Resources, Social Software on Jul 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
This is another experiment. I just built a slide show of my photographs up on flickr with the tag “Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM” with PictoBrowser. It took all of 30 seconds.
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Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
New Preston, Connecticut. We were early for yoga class this morning and next door to the building the class is held in is a small herb garden. Anne rolled her eyes and groaned when I broke out the macro gear to see about a picture of this lavender plant before class started.
I didn’t know lavender [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro, Our Place on Jun 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Two things that took me too long to learn about photography: overcast days can make for better color saturation and easier exposure setups, and flowers going by can be as interesting as flowers at their peak.
I’m still using a rented Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens and enjoying it.
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on Jun 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I rented the Canon 180mm f/3.5 L macro lens for a week and I have to say, it’s quite a nice lens for these types of shots. The longer (than 100mm) focal length makes for nice compression and the lens makes nice colors and beautiful bokeh. It’s a beast though so one really [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on May 12th, 2008 4 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. My wife brings all the outside potted plants into our basement for the winter and now, just before she puts them out for the summer, there are lots of flowering plants leaning toward the big window in the basement. They’re hungry for light. Given that it’s breezy outside and difficult to take pictures [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Macro on Oct 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I found this maple leaf on a baby tree in the woods. Amazingly, the very small tree, only fifteen feet tall seems to be putting out full size leaves. Reminds me of a fourteen year old boy who hasn’t quite grown into his big feet and ears yet. This tree seems awkwardly out [...]
Posted in Flat Macros, Flowers and Trees, Macro on Oct 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. Our ferns have been drying out and turning for a while now but today they seem to be at just the right state of translucency for the backlight of the sun to make them glow.
Note: I rented a Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 L Macro to test out. I’m liking it quite a lot [...]
Posted in Macro, Objects on Sep 30th, 2007 6 Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. I don’t know about you but I have jars, cans, and boxes of old nuts, bolts, and "junk" like this in my basement that I’ve both inherited from the pack rat we bought our house from and which I’ve collected over many years. I promised my wife that this is going to be [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro on Sep 24th, 2007 4 Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. A friend and I got up early to do some landscape photography in early morning light but once out it was hard to resist putting on a macro lens and looking closely at weeds and flowers in that same light. This peppergrass is growing wild in what used to be a cornfield and [...]
Posted in Flowers and Trees, Macro, Photographers on Aug 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
My flickr contact rosemary* has done it again and posted an outstanding macro of a stem with hairs on it with waterdroplets on the hairs.
Posted in Macro, Photo Gear on Jul 22nd, 2007 30 Comments »
This is the first in a series of posts on camera gear that I use and tips on how to use it. There is a limited glossary and a list of resources at the end of this article.
While the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM is not the most expensive or highest end lens in [...]
Posted in Creatures, Macro, People, Places on Jul 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Washington, Connecticut. My friend Gary and I got up very early to catch the morning light at the Macricostas Preserve of the Steep Rock Land Trust which is right down the road from my house. After hiking around we set up in a small clearing near a bend in Bee Brook to do macro and [...]
Posted in Food, Macro, Objects, Our Place on Sep 10th, 2006 No Comments »
Warren, Connecticut. A lone dwarf yellow tomato escapes being caught in my macro lens’ bokeh sauce. A bowl of ripe, yellow plumb tomatoes is both a photographic and gustatory opportunity and I must say, I’ve taken full advantage of both.
Posted in Macro, Photo Editing Software, Photo Resources on Jan 9th, 2006 2 Comments »
The pile of vitamins I choke down every morning with a glass of orange juice looming behind.
This is my first attempt to process a RAW image with Adobe’s new Lightroom application.
You can download the public beta of Lightroom at Adobe Labs. There’s just an OS X version now, Windows version coming soon.
I have never been [...]
Posted in Macro, Our Place, Photography on Dec 6th, 2005 4 Comments »
I got rid of the Canon 60mm f/2.8 macro and (re) got the 100mm f/2.8 macro. My friend Dale was right (all along): the working distance a 100mm lens gives you is important in extreme closeup work and even though I’d say the lenses are equal in sharpness, the 100 will work in the future [...]
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