Rhodo Treated
Today’s post features a rhododendron blossom. I was trying to get the most out of this image that I like for the translucency of the petals, the colour and the lighting. I ended up playing with some of the picasa image processing presets, and the ones I show here each, in their own ways, accentuate something that I like in the image.
Black & White Spring
Today’s post features spring flowers and vegetation in monochrome. The shinier round leaves were carpeting the ground of the Oak Bay Wildflower Garden last Friday evening. I found that the colour photos did not display the reflected light the way I had hoped so tried them in black and white, to better effect. That led me to try some of the flowers as well; something a bit different from the joyous colours marking the passing of winter. But they give the same message – these are not things one sees in the winter. I just said with some confidence that these are better, having seen the colour versions, at showing the light I was trying to capture. However these images are processed quite heavily and pushed into a contrasty territory that I usually stay out of, so I am not completly comfortable putting them forward. I expect I will hear from you either directly, or by your silence, about whether I got anything right.
My own favourites are the photo above for its leafy bokeh, and the ‘swirling leaves’, second in the gallery, for all the movement in the shapes of the leaves.
Etched Bearing
Today I have for you an etched ball bearing about 1 cm diameter that I photographed with a rented Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens. To find out more about the lens, which I rented, look at the first of these posts.
These range in magnification from 5x to 1x. The ball bearing also lives in a button tin, but really because it is the size of a smallish button where else would one keep it and not lose it? It has been with us for decades, and it’s origins are no longer remembered.
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Macro Snap
More from the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens that I rented. To find out more about the lens look at the first of these posts.
This is a clothing snap fastener. It is 9mm in diameter in real life. This is both halves snapped together which you can’t really tell, except it pushes the springs a bit towards the outer perimeter where they are hooked beneath the small ball that is sitting inside the bulbous axis in this view.
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Glass Button Details
Today I have antique glass buttons shot through a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens that I rented. To find out more about the lens, which I rented, look at the first of these posts.
These glass buttons are all shot at 5x magnification. They live in a button tin that is full of all kinds of small gems of manufacturing. occasionally a button is pressed into service for some special sewing project. It is interesting to look at them closely, though some of them seem pretty grubby even though they don’t come across that way life-size. Some of the dust and hair like bits are actually encased in the glass from the looks of it, suggesting interesting things about the manufacturing environment of 100 years ago, or however old these buttons are.
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Fennel Macro
More macro shots from the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens I rented a couple of weeks ago. To find out more about the lens look at my blog Macro Salt Shaker.
Today’s pictures are of a dried up part of the seed head of a fennel plant that grows on our patio. This blog has previously featured this plant in the fall, and in the winter. Included here is a mix of 5x closeup shots and others at lesser magnification. Also included are some bokeh pictures – this lens makes some astonishing bokeh and I will be doing a post just on that subject sometime soon. But this bokeh really goes with these images so they are best kept together.
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Macro Harp String
Yet more from my experiments with a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens. To find out more about the lens, which I rented, look at my blog Macro Salt Shaker.
Today’s pictures are close-ups of the bindings of harp strings. I am told these are the the outer coils from a wound bass string, either the G, A and/or B string below middle C, possibly a mix of all three. Music is something of which I know naught, but there is a celtic harp in the house, among many instruments, and it does get played. These pictures won’t make music for you I don’t suppose. In fact, possibly the opposite since the string was dirty from years of use and kind of grotty up close. These are the remnants from replacing all the strings recently.
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