Periwinkle Bud Up Close
More shots with the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens that I rented over the Easter weekend. To find out more about the lens look at my blog Macro Salt Shaker.
Today’s pictures are of a periwinkle bud and some petal closeups too. Some of these images are at very high ISO values because I had a video setting interfering with the live view mode for stills. I sorted it out part way through these shots, but did not go back and fix all of them.
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Macro Moss
Back to my experiments with a Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens. To find out more about the lens look at my blog Macro Salt Shaker.
Today’s pictures are close-ups of moss and a tiny cup lichen in a garden in North Saanich. They illustrate some of the difficulties of using the lens, such as the importance of good lighting, depth of field and the lack of breeze (all of which are missing from these pictures). I don’t really think any of these are very good photos, but they are the only decent ones I took out-of-doors with that lens and they illustrate the difficulties of its use, so as part of my experiments, I am sharing. I have some better macro shots for my future posts, so don’t run too far away.
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Pine Raindrops
Here I am continuing with digging out some previously shelved, but thankfully not deleted posts while I wait for the return of my computer, which should be later today. The power supply was replaced and the rest of the computer was having tests run overnight to see if the power surge cooked any other parts. Fingers crossed that all else is fine.
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Aerial Landscapes IV – Mountain Valley Sunrise
I am having to interrupt my macro series due to a computer failure – a massive power outage seems to have sent a surge into my main computer which no longer works. Power supply I suspect. Rats. It was a new one.
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Silk Macro
This time the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens was brought to bear on a small spool of silk thread, a recent present from my mother, but probably very old. The word ‘size’ on the spool is 4mm across and in the shot below is at or near to maximum magnification (5:1) as are the thread close-ups, while the picture above is around 1:1 magnification. The other end of the spool, which I did not photograph, is stamped “PURE SILK THREAD 50 YDS SHADE 2300”
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Macro Pysanky
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 some pysanky Easter eggs that we had out over the long weekend. The detailed geometric one is in the Ukrainian tradition although I can’t remember how we came by it. The other glimpses of eggs are ones that my kids made at school. They had teachers that helped decorate eggs every year (hundreds of them), and so we have quite a few that have survived. One of these is dated 2003, as you can see. Others are older than that I am pretty sure.
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Petal to the Macro
More from the Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens that I rented for the weekend. To find out more about the lens and the challenges of working with it look at my Macro Salt Shaker post of yesterday. This post features part of a single petal from a flowering plum-tree in our front yard. I stuck it to a pane of glass on a small drop of water, with a dark background and attempted to light it from behind as well as in front. The lighting source is from a window with the assistance of a foil covered card to reflect light. All shot on tripod, 2 second delay on shutter, live view mode (ie: mirror up), matrix metering mode, manual exposure.
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