from a bouquet for my wife to be on her arrival in Australia
Tag: Macro
one flower
from a bouquet for my wife to be on her arrival in Australia
White flower
an tiny unknown (by me) Winter flower in Koondoola bushland
taken with an old 50mm lens on a macro converter and an experimental flash softbox set up
Pearl Flower
winter flower in Koondoola bushland
a pearl flower
Conostephium pendulum
I went for a ride last weekend to see what was in flower in the local bushland
I think I counted 20 different flowering plants
more than I expected for mid Winter
I took the opportunity to try out a different lighting set up
a home made soft box on my Pentax flash mounted on the camera
using an old 50mm lens mounted on a macro attachment
butterfly or moth
Using the DA* 300mm lens as a macro
what looks like a small moth, but with long thin antennae like a butterfly
Ptilotus
Ptilotus Dummondii, narrowleaf mulla mulla
Warwick bushland reserve
using my old manual 50mm lens
Pink rose
this is the only rose I own
I am not a rose person and find them over rated as flowers
this one survived by accident (my sister took the others)
I thought it had died
then a shoot started from really low down and when it flowered this is the result
I am guessing it is from the original root stock
so for now it is surviving with no looking after (a requirement for plants in my garden, the other is they should be native, local preferably)
quite a cute rose really, understated rather than showy
taken using my 300mm lens as a macro
Macropidia fuliginosa
Macropidia fuliginosa, black kangaroopaw, taken at the Kings park wildflower festiva
more in my wildflower gallery
Ptilotus
taken on a wildflower hunting trip north of Moora
my only photo that turned out
macro shell
I like macro photography, and so far I have had to make do without a macro lens. resorting to dioptre lenses, reversing one lens onto the front of another, or more recently using a 2x converter with the glass removed. One day I will get a proper macro, I hope, a Pentax 100mm macro lens, weather resistant too.
This shell was taken using my Pentax 35-70 macro zoom on a macro converter lens (like a 2x converter except you spiral it in and out).
However when doing macros the depth of field is inevitably very shallow, but I found a program that can get around that (to some degree)
CombineZP
You take a series of photos and change the depth of focus slightly on each one ( a tripod is handy). Open CombineZP and load the photos into it. It will then stack the photos and work its magic to give you a photos with a much larger depth of field 🙂
and its a free program too
The image was turned to black and white in GIMP (free too) using channel mixer
Black and white weekend
Butterfly wing macro
a macro of a butterfly wing
I wish I could find out what kind it is
I took this using my 50mm lens and holding it reversed against a 2x converter, with no glass in it, that was mounted on my Pentax K10D. Using daylight coming through a window.
to improve it i should buy a reversing ring instead of holding the lens to the camera
and a flash may be better than daylight
seeing as the butterfly was deceased, I can have another go 🙂
