Crazed Macro Bokeh
A few months ago I did a series of macro shots from the fantastic Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens that I rented. One thing I dwelled on in one post was the interesting “bokeh” or optical artifacts that arise using this lens at high magnifications. To find out more about the lens look at the first of these posts – I really must rent it again, so many things to try out with it.
These photographs are all from a small antique glass button that I previously posted about here. I am entranced by these images that could have been captured off world, somewhere immense beyond imagination, but in fact were on my kitchen table, too small to see with the naked eye, and needing the lens distortions in any case to emphasize them.
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- Glass button surface, probably x1 magnification
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- Little networks of light. Maybe these are inhabited universes so small we can’t comprehend.
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- More detail of light on the button
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- Glass button rainbow, prob x5 magnification, rotated
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- Glass button rainbow, prob x5 magnification
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- Button details, probably x5 magnification
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Canon 5Dii, Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x Macro Lens, ISO100, f-2.8 (except last image at f-13), exposures ranging from 1/200th to 1 second (last shot again).
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burnt embers 
The series you produced with this lens remains one of my favorites from you. I just love the intricate details that you exposed and shared with us all here, details that under normal circumstances we would certainly have missed! Great set, once again!
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Hi Toad – that set of images is one of my favourites too. I lean pretty heavily towards macro shots on the preference scale, and this lens is so much sharper compared to any I own lenses, except perhaps the 50/1.4. Sure would be nice to own one, but they are pricey, and I have other priorities ahead of such a specialised lens. Here we are chatting about something that you can’t even see in this post! If people care to see more, click on the MP-E 65mm tag above.
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Beautiful! I love the surreal worlds the macro lens reveals. These are landscapes of light, tiny fractions of light.
As for reblogging, consider it a compliment. But snit all you want as well. 😉
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Thanks Ryan – they are totally about light, and not in the normal ways of photography, but something more (or is it less/littler?).
Well, I don’t really want to snit, so a compliment I will consider it, normally.Sometimes when someone is piggy backing on my hard work, with none of their own apparent, I might snit in their general direction, but probably not directly from these pages.
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Hahaha. I like the idea of more out of less (littler). There’s something magical in that.
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Very cool!
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Hi Danita! Thank you 🙂
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These are a bit magical, Ephem.
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Thanks Karen – it is interesting to look so closely that it is seemingly no longer real.
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This post was reblogged twice today. I get reblogged from time to time, and never once has anyone followed my request that I had posted above the calendar at the bottom, or in my About page and asked me first, even though I made it clear I would be saying yes in almost all situations. While I have expended quite a lot of energy in the past getting people to take down my blogs and feeling snarky about being ripped-off, I realise that the world of blogging is different than other places – the tumblr and facebook ethic pervades, and WP encourages it. And why start my day in a snit?
So, while I find that rude and a violation of my copyright, I have decided to get with the times. I always insert a “more” line in my posts and that seems to work in the WP reblog too so that those other viewers have to come look at the original if they want to see all of it. I will no longer ask them to take down my posts, unless I dislike their blog or they appear to be profiting from my work. I will even let the reblogged notice show here, but only when I like what they are doing with their blog – such as it includes orginal content and they are just complimenting my blog, or there is some genuine element of creativity where the collection or “curation” of other blogs has some apparently deliberate consistency and purpose or is in some other way interesting. Otherwise (for instance one guy that wants to reach a million reblogs) my readers will never know if someone has reblogged me. In otherwords, I will judge them, and they will know it. That is the most snit I can manage at 7am.
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Reblogged this on Conceptual Art.
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