Mundane Macro
More shots from the bellows macro, this time of mundane objects found around the house. Included are a very fine paintbrush, a ball point pen, fine needle, small safety-pin, head of a safety match, lens cleaning brush, strange wire Christmas decoration and the chipped corner of a welders’ glass that I used as a background for these photos.
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The images are taken with a single tungsten photoflood bulb and some low light from a nearby window. All are at the maximum magnification of 5x. All are bracketed shots processed in Photomatix with exposure fusion settings.
I cleaned much of the dust off my sensor, but still have a bit that I might make another try at removing. I hate to mess around in there, but I sure got a lot of gunk on the sensor from the old bellows unit, even though I cleaned it carefully.
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To open the gallery view click on any image below, navigate with the arrows and escape to return to this page.
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- Match head
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- Safety pin 1
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- Safety pin 1
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- Safety pin 3
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- Lens brush, do we really put these on our lenses?
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- Welders’ glass
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- Needle tip
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- Eye of the needle 1
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- Eye of the needle 2
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- Ball point pen 1
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- Ball point pen 2
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- Fine paint brush
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- Christmas decoration
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- Christmas decoration 2
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Canon 5Dii, Canon FD 50mm f3.5 Macro Lens reversed with a Canon Macrophoto Coupler FL and mounted on a Canon FL Bellows with a Canon Life Size Adapter. All macro images ISO100, merged from 3 brackets each, variously at +/- 1.o and +/- 2.0 E.V. except match head merged from 2 sets of 3 brackets.
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Epic! Terrific work!!
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Thank you – it was a fun start to the whole process of getting this gear operational!
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What a lens. Great images.
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Me and this macro rig have been wrestling for control. I am slowly getting the upper hand.
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Lose the battles… win the war.
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The mundane rendered Sublime. Fantastic
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Thanks Andy – sublime, the word I have been groping for.
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Okay, where are the mundane photos??? Seriously, these are all very nice. Are you going to light the match next?
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Ha! Given that the front (or rather rear) of the lens is less than 1cm from the match, lighting it might make for a cool (hot?) photo, but I think would be fatal to the lens.
As to mundane – the objects are mundane (except maybe the welder’s mask glass which is a bit more interesting), though at high magnification they take on a lot more interest for me. Even then they are more mundane than the recent photos of crystalline glazes, and the pots that they are on.
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Beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you Nina! Nice to have you commenting again.
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Nothing mundane about these. Happy New Year Mr E!!!!!!
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Thank you Katherine 🙂 Happy New Year to you too. Thanks for all your visits and comments, they are much appreciated.
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Wow – the things you can see at 5X! I liked the Christmas ornament shot, especially the way you framed it. And that lens brush looked like a bundle of sticks, which is a little scary, I guess.
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Thanks Melinda. It is a strange little world all around us. And a very dusty one, in our house anyway – everything has dust on it at this scale. I like that ornamental wire the best of them all too – it has great bokeh. Arranging that stuff into a composition was hit or miss, it is all bent out of shape, a springy tangle and it kept on touching the lens and moving with it when I was trying to focus. This was the best of the shots I took, though they all had a greater sense of depth than any of the others. I see the gallery is uneven number – I will add one of the others which is a single image, not brackets.
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