Photo Challenge - Macro Shots
 

I took theses two photos this morning for a challenge in a photography group I am participating in and I thought I would carry it over here. It's a macro group and the challenge was 'textures'...but for the purposes of this thread we will expand it to include any macro shot - macro defined as any capture that comes close to or magnifies the actual size of what is being photographed.

And just to be clear, the photos submitted should be taken for this challenge and not pics that you have in your files. Pick up your camera and go get 'em. :)

onion.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3637/...8e8558b1_b.jpg

vintage fabric from a chair in my living room.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3434/...275b3198_b.jpg

Crap, just when I think I am getting a weekend to relax, now I need to finish my fiber optic ring flash...thanks alot! >_<

holy shit...

...and you're welcome. ;)

on a borrowed comp mixed but,i have many macros on my comp to send in when i get it back...........


great thread............love macros

well, thank you, fly...you know I love you, but you will need to take fresh macros for the challenge. It's only fair. ;)

A fresh macro yes?
Okay....this shall be fun and instructive, I am still becoming aquainted with
the new digital (my first digital) camera.

A few hours ago I went to the store to get cigs.
There is a large metal scupture, created by a local artist/philanthropist,
who built the apts., where I live.
I love rust.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0289.jpg

yay! a picture!

that's cool...very...viral.

Thanks, ring :)

Now, these shots aren't exclusively textures, because you can see some of the background and such, but this was what I took just now starting to explore off camera flash:

jelly bean
http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...89_tcxxh-M.jpg

water:
http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...95_QYwvA-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...57_UpFyh-M.jpg

Excellent dippin! Thank you. You can even see the cracks in the jelly bean - looks like its about to hatch.

And these photos do not have to be about textures. Any macro shots will do.

Ha.
The Nikon 55mm micro lens I won on Ebay for $20 just arrived today. I'm going to have to get stuck in.

I wanted to throw my entry into the mix.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3059/...b3f8f525_b.jpg

another one from the same series of tests:
http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...87_Q5GRE-M.jpg

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0338.jpg



http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0337.jpg

nice ring, experimenting with shadows. I see you are having fun with your new camera. :)

Thanks, I will slow down a bit I think.
I feel like I onslaughted the forum a wee bit.

pfft, don't be silly. onslaught away!

okay then...
I want to go play with the holla walla some more too.

Now that is art.. i like this

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This looks scary

ko.........new ones it'll be then

This is as close as I can get with the 18-55 lens.

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0352.jpg

ring..thats not what i'd like to think it is....


is it :D

Pah, forget I said anything. Just post what you want. :)

Bark
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...e4bd6ea17c.jpg
Change
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...2566f7859c.jpg
Cookie
http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...6be87ba301.jpg
Fish cartilage sculpture
http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/i...3e03184160.jpg

Excellent contributions! Thank you, Bacchanal. I especially like the change in a glass, great idea. If you look at it long enough it starts to look like a pile of change sitting on top of a glass volcano...or maybe that's just me.

It is what you think it is: a seashell, correct? ;)

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_0351.jpg

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/2269/dsc00025w.jpg

This is how plants roll in my house-- covered in dust and animal fur.

Here is a bud on one of Mrs. C4Fan's cactus plants.

Note the tiny drop of cactus juice in the middle and the baby thorns on the right edge.

dan

http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/d.../CactusBud.jpg

Some great close ups here, will post mine when the site lets me add links. Really like the waspe photo.

I'm still playing around with my macro setting, but here's one I took for this challenge:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...s/1018-070.jpg

have fun, snowy, but it can be addictive. just a heads up.

And that is a lovely photograph of a lovely subject. Nice job!

Thought I'd put this one in to clarify what I was shooting.
Attachment 18759
I love my new camera - great toy! :D
Attachment 18760

It was delicious
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3659/...3d6738.jpg?v=0

this was not easy to come by...but a joy to capture!

Here is one of my cats, Leoni, quite the king of the jungle - he loves to play.

If you look closely you can see me reflected in his eyes :)

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/members...1044-leoni.jpg

Mimosa sensitivum

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...33_PRX2x-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...78_S58ax-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...57_zGYKi-M.jpg

http://deogopoles.smugmug.com/photos...90_JNZAW-M.jpg

Nice shots, everyone. Thanks for contributing.

best I could do with a 18-55 mm lens, showed me the limitations but a hell of a lot better than my old camera could do. :)
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http://www.torlian.com/mypics/TFP/ma...-Toy_Woody.JPG
pic 1)
http://www.torlian.com/mypics/TFP/ma...-Toy_train.JPG

I will never understand the desire to put hats on inanimate objects. :p

Thanks for sharing, SG. :)

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A few I took for this thread:thumbsup:

Excellent, thank you, Confederate. :)

Another pic with a cat here. Also, one I took of my wine bar, with a dragon nesting on top of one of my glasses. ;) I'm still new to the macro shot stuff, so bear with me if they don't looks very "macro" :D

Thanks for contributing to the thread, Sue!
Just keep moving in closer. :)

This was done using the following setup:

50mm f1.8 II reverse mounted to a 75-300mm f3.5-4.5 (using a 52mm to 55mm filter coupler) which was then mated to my 5D mk II.

So in essence, I was using a 300mm lens as a ghetto extension tube with a poor-man's macro lens (50mm lens reversed). The images are pretty poor quality and are quite hard to focus/capture. But here is an example of what could be done with this setup:

http://www.auroraimaging.ca/gallery2...serialNumber=1
Close-up of the number 100 printed at 10pt on plain paper.

http://www.auroraimaging.ca/gallery2...serialNumber=1
This is a cluster of modified leaves (thorns) on a potted cactus I have. Notice the very shallow DOF - I set the 300mm lens to f45 and it still produced a weak DOF. Focus stacking would solve this, however even getting the subject into focus was an epic battle due to the sensitivity of this setup. For example, roughly 0.1mm of movement threw the entire scene out of focus.

I would like to share a couple, but I need a few more posts before I am allowed to link images in. There are some nice images here... macro can be so dramatic. Like it! :thumbsup:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h...y/DSC_1303.jpg

I love amber.
It's attached to the dog-tag chain that was my Father's.

I just took these pics. A curtain fringe, a stained glass and a plant outside the basement window. I needed to be at the window to get enough light. Its a grey, November day today in Kingston. My lens is a 70-300 macro Sigma on a Canon Rebel Xt.

I guess I do have something to contribute this time.

Nikon E4500 10/603 shutter, F/4.9, 30mm, ISO100

http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs7/i/200...logansnake.jpg

http://images2.cafemomstatic.com/ima...ageId=17611515

http://images2.cafemomstatic.com/ima...ageId=17611591

http://images2.cafemomstatic.com/ima...ageId=17611616

http://images2.cafemomstatic.com/ima...ageId=17611675

Very nice, Ms. Cub.
I enjoy the delicate depth of focusing.
Thanks also for reviving the thread.

Thanks :)

One of the shots from the woods. This was at 800 ISO, f/5.6, and the exposure bias turned up.

50mm f/18 lens at F/5.6, 1/45s ISO100 through one of these as a magnifier and ring light.